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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:57:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] OpenSSL integration
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Thomas,

  read all README.* files and the CODING_STANDARDS (php is very picky).
For an introduction to writing extensions look here: http://talks.somabo.de
There is also an artivel series from Sara Golemon somewhere on the Zend site
and she also published a neat book on the topic. However PHP 5.2 is already
released so you'd need to hope for 5.3 or develop for HEAD directly -
generally we only accept new features for HEAD and eventually backport them.
Besides that any help is always welcome!

best regards
marcus


Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 6:01:15 PM, you wrote:

> I want to access some of the more obscure OpenSSL functions (about 20)
> from PHP and would like to contribute what I need access to from OpenSSL
> in PHP back to the community.

> To that end, I've downloaded the source code for PHP 5.2.0 and started
> looking at the C source for the OpenSSL portion to how the functions are
> implemented.  My dev platform is Windows and VS.NET 2003 (armed, of
> course, with Visual Assist X).

> Since this is my first contribution to any open source project (source
> code-wise), I will probably need some hand holding (e.g. help with CVS
> stuff, first build in my preferred dev environment (VC++ GUI), and
> properly using 'diff'/'patch' when I'm done).  However, I am an expert
> C/C++ programmer, so there's not much to worry about there - but I do
> need to know where the official documentation is for functions like
> zend_parse_parameters() and what in the world TSRMLS_CC is (a macro,
> obviously, but what it is good for and its historical significance is
> usually lost in documentation).

> I think that's all I need to know.  The rest I can handle on my own.
> And web links to the right portions of the manual (i.e. RTMs) are fine -
> I know how to read once I get the right page.  Finding the page is the
> tricky part.

> (And I'm willing to document undocumented functions as I go along too).

> --
> Thomas Hruska
> CubicleSoft President
> Ph: 517-803-4197

> http://www.CubicleSoft.com/




Best regards,
 Marcus