SAPI documentation

21 years ago by Michael O'Brien — view source

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Is there any documentation regarding the SAPI interface?

I'm writing a SAPI module so that I can run PHP in a new embedded
web server.

Why, do I want to do this?
Our server is designed for embedding in applications or devices and is
a fast, multi-threaded, secure, portable, small-footprint web server that
uses an apache configuration file format. It really is like a small,
embeddable Apache. For devices or applications that want their own
in-process personal web server, our server Mbedthis AppWeb is ideal.

I want to support PHP in an embedded fashion but am struggling to find
documentation on the SAPI interface. I can probably work it out from the
code, but there don't seem to be pointers about what are the expectations
by PHP on the SAPI module. Also, there seems to be quite a bit of
diversity in the level of support offered by existing SAPI handlers.

Any help or pointers to existing information will be appreciated.

Michael O'Brien
Lead Architect
http://www.mbedthis.com

21 years ago by Wez Furlong — view source

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Hi Michael,

There is no documentation except for the source code.
I'd suggest using one of the other threaded SAPI's as
a base and go from there (isapi and/or nsapi).

--Wez.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael O'Brien" mob@mbedthis.com
To: internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] SAPI documentation

Is there any documentation regarding the SAPI interface?

I'm writing a SAPI module so that I can run PHP in a new embedded
web server.

21 years ago by Jani Taskinen — view source

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What about the sapi/embed ?  :)

--Jani

Hi Michael,

There is no documentation except for the source code.
I'd suggest using one of the other threaded SAPI's as
a base and go from there (isapi and/or nsapi).

--Wez.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael O'Brien" mob@mbedthis.com
To: internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] SAPI documentation

Is there any documentation regarding the SAPI interface?

I'm writing a SAPI module so that I can run PHP in a new embedded
web server.

21 years ago by George Schlossnagle — view source

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What about the sapi/embed ?  :)

Probably not the best example of a general purpose SAPI.

--Jani

21 years ago by Michael O'Brien — view source

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Wez,

Thanks all for your responses.

I've read the code of all the SAPI handlers and thought the nsapi
or AOL code looked like a reasonable starting base.

I might just document this as I go. Some documentation is really
needed in this area. As a minimum, I can comment my SAPI code well
and that will be a better guide for others.

Michael O'Brien
http://www.mbedthis.com

Hi Michael,

There is no documentation except for the source code.
I'd suggest using one of the other threaded SAPI's as
a base and go from there (isapi and/or nsapi).

--Wez.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael O'Brien" mob@mbedthis.com
To: internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] SAPI documentation

Is there any documentation regarding the SAPI interface?

I'm writing a SAPI module so that I can run PHP in a new embedded
web server.

21 years ago by Alex Leigh — view source

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Michael,

I've written a SAPI module for a threaded web-server, so I've been down
this road of discovery. If you have any questions at all or want an
overview, please feel free to get in touch with me.

Alex

--
Alex Leigh - aleigh@tessier.com - www.configuredlight.com
The difference between theory and reality
is that in theory there is no difference.

Wez,

Thanks all for your responses.

I've read the code of all the SAPI handlers and thought the nsapi
or AOL code looked like a reasonable starting base.

I might just document this as I go. Some documentation is really
needed in this area. As a minimum, I can comment my SAPI code well
and that will be a better guide for others.

Michael O'Brien
http://www.mbedthis.com

Hi Michael,

There is no documentation except for the source code.
I'd suggest using one of the other threaded SAPI's as
a base and go from there (isapi and/or nsapi).

--Wez.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael O'Brien" mob@mbedthis.com
To: internals@lists.php.net
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] SAPI documentation

Is there any documentation regarding the SAPI interface?

I'm writing a SAPI module so that I can run PHP in a new embedded
web server.