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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:44:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New to the PHP internals and I want to help
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 00:05 +0200, Martin Wernstahl wrote:
> I've wanted to add a few features to PHP for some time (a few years
> ago I tried to implement closures,
> but it didn't go well because I didn't really know where to start - by the way,
> I really like the current implementation of closures so far!).
> 
> Does anyone have somewhere to point me for resources on how to modify
> the PHP core?
> (More specifically, add/modify things to/in the Zend engine)

well adding stuff there is, in general, he most complex and a god start
might be o fully understand the architecture there by reading code and
maybe trying to understand bugfixes being made.

For finding something small to do I'd suggest looking over the bugs DB
there are quite a few "simple" bugs, while it might take some time to
find them. For question on details eel free to ask on this list, or on
pecl-dev.

johannes