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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:56:06 -0400
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To: BuildSmart <buildsmart@daleenterprise.com>
Cc: "Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net>, 
	"PHP Developers Mailing List" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FALIAS()
From: davidc@php.net ("David Coallier")

On 9/10/07, BuildSmart <buildsmart@daleenterprise.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2007, at 08:53:29, Marcus Boerger wrote:
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> > Hello BuildSmart,
> >
> >   If you have the correct includes in place, sure.
> >
> > marcus
>
> Thanks for the response, OK I think I can manage that with ease, what
> I'm contemplating to do is create a mysql_alias extension that
> aliases the mysql extension functions to the mysqli equivalents since
> a lot of scripts and packages are already dependent on the mysql
> extension but it's been deprecated (so I've been informed) and I was
> thinking of a simple method to allow the dropping of the mysql
> extension in favor of the mysqli extension without having to rewrite
> existing scripts and packages.
>
> Since you claims it's possible to alias an external extensions
> functions I guess it's just a matter of getting the includes worked
> out and what headers need to be loaded in the faking module.
>
> This will probably require a little finessing but shouldn't be too
> difficult or complicated.
>

Actually if you look at zend_API.h which contains ZEND_FALIAS
(PHP_FALIAS /main/php.h) you'll notice that as long as the includes
are done, it's quite trivial to do :)

Good luck,

> >
> > Saturday, September 8, 2007, 11:36:15 AM, you wrote:
> >
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> >> I've seen several examples of PHP_FALIAS within a single module, I'm
> >> wondering if it's possible to have one module with aliases
> >> referencing functions in another module?
> >
> >> - -- Dale
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> > Best regards,
> >  Marcus
>
> - -- Dale
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