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Ian Young

19 years ago

Hi all,
I'm applying for one of PHP's Google Summer of Code projects.  The ideas
page (http://www.php.net/ideas.php) includes this text: "If you are
applying for a project in the PHP code itself (in C), you may find
useful the PHP hackers guide, which also includes our C coding standards
(TBD)."  Does this hackers guide exist? I don't see it anywhere in the
documentation.  Is this just a reference to the readmes included in the
source code? I did find the coding standards there, but I'm curious if
there's more info somewhere else.

Ian

Antony Dovgal

19 years ago

On 03/26/2007 11:42 PM, Ian Young wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm applying for one of PHP's Google Summer of Code projects.  The ideas
> page (http://www.php.net/ideas.php) includes this text: "If you are
> applying for a project in the PHP code itself (in C), you may find
> useful the PHP hackers guide, which also includes our C coding standards
> (TBD)."  Does this hackers guide exist? I don't see it anywhere in the
> documentation.  Is this just a reference to the readmes included in the
> source code? I did find the coding standards there, but I'm curious if
> there's more info somewhere else.

It's probably referring to http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.php

--
Wbr,
Antony Dovgal

Nuno Lopes

19 years ago

> On 03/26/2007 11:42 PM, Ian Young wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm applying for one of PHP's Google Summer of Code projects.  The ideas
>> page (http://www.php.net/ideas.php) includes this text: "If you are
>> applying for a project in the PHP code itself (in C), you may find
>> useful the PHP hackers guide, which also includes our C coding standards
>> (TBD)."  Does this hackers guide exist? I don't see it anywhere in the
>> documentation.  Is this just a reference to the readmes included in the
>> source code? I did find the coding standards there, but I'm curious if
>> there's more info somewhere else.
>
> It's probably referring to http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.php

Nop, sorry.. It says there "TBD" (to be done) :) I added that because I had
the intention to write a PHP hackers guide, but I never started it. I hope
it will be ready on the next year's SoC :)
Anyway, if you need some pointers, just ask here or on IRC (efnet:
#php.pecl).

Nuno

Sara Golemon

19 years ago

Ian Young wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm applying for one of PHP's Google Summer of Code projects.  The ideas
> page (http://www.php.net/ideas.php) includes this text: "If you are
> applying for a project in the PHP code itself (in C), you may find
> useful the PHP hackers guide, which also includes our C coding standards
> (TBD)."  Does this hackers guide exist? I don't see it anywhere in the
> documentation.  Is this just a reference to the readmes included in the
> source code? I did find the coding standards there, but I'm curious if
> there's more info somewhere else.
>

Some handy resources:

Websites:
* http://www.php.net/zend
Official documentation.  Not as well maintained as the userspace
portions of the manual, but still very useful.

* http://www.zend.com/php/internals
Walthrough driven, focuses on extension development, but includes some
"general internals" information in places.



Books:
* Extending and Embedding PHP (ISBN: 067232704X)
Expanded version of http://www.zend.com/php/internals , Covers more of
the sticky bits of navigating the PHPAPI.

* Advanced PHP Programming    (ISBN: 0672325616)
Primarily aimed at userspace development, but it has a large section on
extension development and working with the APIs exposed by PHP.


Disclaimer: I wrote zend.com/php/internals Ext/Embed PHP, so take these
recommendations with the grain of salt that they /are/ biased.

And of course, there's always this mailing list and pecl-dev.

-Sara