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Subject: Re: Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

http://lxr.php.net should help you with decoding all those macros.

But if it's a reference you want:  [plug]Extending and Embedding PHP: 
Available soon from Amazon.com and other fine retailers[/plug]

A not-insignificant percentage of the appendices is made up of just this 
kind of API reference.  Not to mention the meat of the book which covers the 
theory and pratice of using those API calls and macros.  I don't have an 
exact release date yet, but soon, very very soon.

-Sara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Richard Lynch"" <ceo@l-i-e.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 4:03 PM
Subject: Zend API / PHP Internals Reference Manual


> I'm looking for a Reference Manual for the Zend API and/or PHP Internals.
>
> I've found about forty 'leven "how-to" and "learn by example" talks,
> slide-shows, tutorials, etc for writing a PHP extension.  Don't get me
> wrong, these are great!
>
> But they leave me with questions about a bunch of macros and ton of
> code, and while I *can* read C source, and puzzle my way through it
> eventually, more or less, to some degree...  Well, I'd be a whole lot
> better off if I found the moral equivalent of http://php.net/manual
> only for "Internals"
>
> Did I just miss it, or is it a pipe dream, or is it just not seen to
> be useful?
>
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