Using c++ classes / libraries

Mucello

I'm working on a large software project to retrieve, parse, and ingest similar data from a variety of sources and formats. We'd like to use object oriented programming where possible to keep the code maintainable and scalable. We've determined that c++ would be a great language to do this. Many of our scripts that interface with the data are in Perl, PHP, and Python. Most of the time, we can do queries and data manipulation in the respective language. But it would be great to also tap into the power and already written code of C++

Is it possible to import, inherit, include, etc. a C++ library or compiled code into PHP?

Thanks for any insight.

Mark

sneakyimp

PHP can execute command line instructions with functions like exec() and passthru(). That would be one way to do it. I'm not sure if you can retrieve binary data this way or not. I'm also not sure if it's fast or slow or what.

Weedpacket

You might like to have a look at writing a [man]Zend[/man] extension; give your code a PHP-friendly interface and link it into the executable (or dl() it). Several of the "usual" PHP extensions (mcrypt, gd-lib, etc.) are like this (foreign code with a Zend wrapper), so as well as the link above the PHP source code will give plenty of examples.

Mucello

Thanks for the insight. I found something called SWIG (http://www.swig.org) which I think I'll give a try. Has anyone had any successes with SWIG?