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Subject: Help with calling PHP functions
From: dhiru.pandey@sun.com (Dhiru Pandey)

[My apologies if I am posting on the wrong group...please point me to 
the right one]

I am trying to figure out a way to invoke PHP functions directly i.e. 
bypassing the PHP compiler (scanner and parser). For now it would be
great if I can get some help calling them from C. Ultimately I would 
like to call them from Java.

For e.g. I would like to call:

PHP_FUNCTION(str_repeat)

It appears to me when stepping thru the invocation path that some 
compiler and executor globals need to be initialized before one can
call these functions. In its raw form these functions do not have the
arguments (needed by the function) passed as parameters to the functions 
call. I need some guidance in this area and recommendations on how to do 
this

Thanks in advance
-Dhiru