Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11465 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97057 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Jul 2004 13:47:34 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96231 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 13:47:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.omniti.com) (66.80.117.3) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2004 13:47:22 -0000 Received: from ([66.80.117.2:52785]) by mail.omniti.com (ecelerity HEAD) with SMTP id E2/10-01874-A65CFF04; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:47:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040722133959.57622.qmail@pb1.pair.com> References: <20040722111742.253.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <72756627-DBDC-11D8-86DF-000D93359332@omniti.com> <20040722133959.57622.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: <9F883F30-DBE5-11D8-86DF-000D93359332@omniti.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: George Schlossnagle , internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:47:07 -0400 To: "John Lim" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Calling PHP functions from an extension From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Jul 22, 2004, at 9:39 AM, John Lim wrote: > Hi George, > > 2 reasons. > > High learning curve to learn all client API's. All the APIs have worked examples in the PHP sources. :) > Secondly because of linking > issues with the client. E.g. oracle might not be installed on the > server. Of course you create a new runtime dependency your way. Are you doing this for PHP5 or PHP4? There's a worked example in the new xsl extension for PHP5 that does most of what you want (where PHP functions are registered as XSLT extension functions.) George