Userland API leveraging the 'php' namespace View as Markdown

Hello,

this is my first post to this group, so I hope this is the right place.

One day, I started working on an API, which I thought, would be cool to
be the official php API. I was roughly adding some code together to
imagine how this API will look like (nothing which would need to working
for that case). I considered this as a huge playground for me. Lately I
thought, this is worth sharing with others and from the early feedback,
I'm not alone ;)

The idea is to work on a polyfill changing the userland API with the
goal to make it official when the polyfill is stable. So, I wrote some
lines together and shared it at PHP-FIG first (a couple of weeks ago).

Here are the goals for this project:

• Standardize function calls
• Wrap 'resource' types in classes
• Provide php functionality in an OOP fashion
• Add missing langauge features (hint collections)
• Primitives as Objects
• Offer more type hinting

More details on the repo and the readme:
https://github.com/gossi/oophp

In this mailing-list I also see similar requests and also found
references to what I had in mind, which I collected at the repo.

For now, I'd like to hear your feedback about this and how to possibly
proceed further with this.

Thank you very much
gossi