# Help with calling PHP functions - Thread: https://externals.io/message/37246 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/37246 - Started by Dhiru Pandey on 2008-04-26T18:23:03+00:00 - Messages: 6 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #37246 — Dhiru Pandey — 2008-04-26T18:23:03+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/37246#37246 [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 --- ## #37247 — Edward Z. Yang — 2008-04-26T18:45:45+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/37246#37247 · In reply to: #37246 Dhiru Pandey wrote: > 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. It's not difficult to call PHP_FUNCTIONs if you're inside PHP: you create a zval with the appropriate callback value (a string if you're dealing with global PHP functions) and then use call_user_function. You can find detailed instructions here: http://www.php.net/~wez/extending-php.pdf Can't help you for the other, although "Extending and Embedding PHP" by Sara Golemon, George Schlossnagle and Wez Furlong covers that topic, I think. -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]] --- ## #37248 — Dhiru Pandey — 2008-04-26T19:15:52+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/37246#37248 · In reply to: #37247 Thanks for responding. May be I mis-wrote. What I would really like is a way to call the native c functions of the php implementation directly (bypassing the PHP compiler) like: PHP_FUNCTION(str_repeat) PHP_FUNCTION(addcslashes) etc. In other words I would like to invoke this functions directly thru C or Java. I do not want to callback into a PHP script user function Thanks, -Dhiru Edward Z. Yang wrote: > Dhiru Pandey wrote: > > […] > > It's not difficult to call PHP_FUNCTIONs if you're inside PHP: you > create a zval with the appropriate callback value (a string if you're > dealing with global PHP functions) and then use call_user_function. You > can find detailed instructions here: > http://www.php.net/~wez/extending-php.pdf > > Can't help you for the other, although "Extending and Embedding PHP" by > Sara Golemon, George Schlossnagle and Wez Furlong covers that topic, I > think. --- ## #37250 — Edward Z. Yang — 2008-04-26T19:51:59+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/37246#37250 · In reply to: #37248 Dhiru Pandey wrote: > Thanks for responding. > > May be I mis-wrote. > What I would really like is a way to call the native c functions of the > php implementation directly (bypassing the PHP compiler) like: > > PHP_FUNCTION(str_repeat) > PHP_FUNCTION(addcslashes) etc. > > In other words I would like to invoke this functions directly thru C or > Java. > > I do not want to callback into a PHP script user function Callback works with the native C functions too. It'll be pretty nasty trying to get all of PHP's macros to work from scratch. Just use the infrastructure that's in place already. -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]] --- ## #37252 — Edward Z. Yang — 2008-04-26T19:52:43+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/37246#37252 · In reply to: #37250 Edward Z. Yang wrote: > Callback works with the native C functions too. It'll be pretty nasty > trying to get all of PHP's macros to work from scratch. Just use the > infrastructure that's in place already. Sorry about the double-post; I should clarify: I mean that callback works with PHP functions that were implemented in C. -- Edward Z. Yang GnuPG: 0x869C48DA HTML Purifier Anti-XSS Filter [[ 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA ]] --- ## #37253 — Nathan Nobbe — 2008-04-26T20:08:33+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/37246#37253 · In reply to: #37246 > [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. per calling them from java you might use or investigate the quercus or 'ibm project 0' projects. they might not be what you want as they are separate java-based implementations of php, but im guessing you can access php through them; or at any rate the java equivalent, but they dont really say that explicitly. http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/#Java-Users -nathan