Zend resources

"Wez Furlong" kingwez@gmail.com wrote in message
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The module whose resources you are accessing needs to export a
function that will give you the list id, and also publish their
structure layout in a header file.

Just out of interest, what functions are in your extension?

--Wez.

I've created a new module, which is an improvement to the socket library.
I
however do not plan on re-writing every single function. So I need to find
a
way to somehow access the socket library's resources. My question is, is
there a way to access another module's resource?

"Wez Furlong" kingwez@gmail.com wrote in message
news:4e89b426050911135030c1aebe@mail.gmail.com...
The module whose resources you are accessing needs to export a
function that will give you the list id, and also publish their
structure layout in a header file.

Just out of interest, what functions are in your extension?

--Wez.

I've created a new module, which is an improvement to the socket library.
I
however do not plan on re-writing every single function. So I need to find
a
way to somehow access the socket library's resources. My question is, is
there a way to access another module's resource?

Yeah I have seen those functions, but they are quite bloated in my opnion.

Maybe so, but at least they work :)

Is there any way of getting the resource id without modifying sockets?

Nope.

--Wez.

"Wez Furlong" kingwez@gmail.com wrote in message
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Well, I've improved the socket_accept and socket_connect functions and
I've
name them socketi_*. socketi_accept returns the IP as well as the port
number, and socket_connect has a timeout function.

Have you seen stream_socket_server(), stream_socket_accept(),
stream_socket_get_name() and stream_socket_client() in PHP 5?

By the way, what function should give me the list id?
zend_list_find() or something similar?

The sockets extension would need to provide a new function that
returns the value of le_socket, which you'd then use in the same way
that the sockets extension does.

--Wez.

Is there any way of getting the resource id without modifying sockets?

ZEND_API int zend_fetch_list_dtor_id(char *type_name);

As an implementation:

In your socketi.c:

static int le_socket = -1;

PHP_RINIT(socketi)
{
if (le_socket == -1) {
le_socket = zend_fetch_list_dtor_id("Socket");
}

return (le_socket == -1) ? FAILURE : SUCCESS;

}

By doing it in RINIT you avoid the potential problem of having socketi
loaded before socket (which could happen if they're both shared). Once the
first request has retreived it, later requests won't have to try because
it'll be persistently known from then on.

The one pitfall to this method is that IF another ext defines a resource
named "Socket" (case-sensitive), you could pick up the wrong lde ID. Fairly
left-field chance, but technically not impossible.

-Sara