[Resolved] valid DLL extensions for php, how to?

Lahloob

Hello everybody,

I've written some library in C .. and compiled it as DLL ..

I just wonder if there is a good article that describes how to make DLLs valid for PHP (as extensions).

One more question, does the code have to be written in C, or any other language is accepted ?

superwormy

Not quite sure what exactly you mean...

You don't 'make dlls valid' for PHP at all, don't know what you mean by that. You can't just use a DLL as a PHP script or something... You can call and access DLLs under Windows with PHP by using the 'w32api functions' which are covered in the PHP manual.

In general, the idea behind COM DLLs is that they can be written in any language, and use a standard RPC kinda system so that anything else can call them.

If you just want your PHP script to end with *.dll, you should look at ForceType for Apache, not sure where you'd look for IIS servers.

Weedpacket

If you really are talking about writing a PHP extension, there are chapters on the subject in the manual.

Lahloob

Originally posted by Weedpacket
If you really are talking about writing a PHP extension, there are chapters on the subject in the manual.

Exactly that's what I was looking for, and oh yeah I have found pretty good ones:

http://www.devnewz.com/2002/0909.html

http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.creating.php (official)

I'll mark the thread resolved