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To: "'Roman Ivanov'" <gamblergluck@yahoo.com>,
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:21:12 -0800
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] More docs about making PHP extensions?
From: me@bobsilva.com ("Bob Silva")
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Hi Roman,

I was in the same spot 2 weeks ago. Having never programmed in C before and
knowing nothing about PHP internals I wasn't sure where to start. The
documentation has an appendix in it that covers PHP4 Zend API but a lot is
still relevant (or close enough) to begin. Make use of the skeleton
extension as a starting point. Sara's articles are good for understanding
the ZVAL's usage within PHP. Also, looking at some of the newer extensions
like SPL are good starting points to get some of the base concepts down.

Good luck, it isn't so hard once you get into it.

Bob Silva

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Ivanov [mailto:gamblergluck@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:47 AM
> To: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] More docs about making PHP extensions?
> 
> I've read two tutorials from Sara Golemon
> (http://zend.com/php/internals/), but it's not enought for me to start
> writing a real extension. Are there any other docs? API reference?
> 
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