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Subject: Re: Hacker's guide?
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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