On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > Omar, the idea is to download and install the ITL library along with > PHP code (which you'll write) that accesses that ITL C-library (you > can replace ITL with fribidi or any other library). The question now > is not if accessing C code from you application is doable, its a > question of how its done. Some programs have native support to do > that (ie. its embedded within the programming language itself - a > feature if you will) others depend on external "bridging" (if you > can even call it that). An example of an external connecting > application (again I'm not sure if PHP (or Java) can't do this > natively) is SWIG, > > http://www.swig.org
SWIG is a good choice too, it does the job for a few languages at once. > If need be, we can add these "interface (*.i)" files to the ITL > library so as to ease people's life (so they don't have to port > anything and simply call the functions - again this is a library > after all :-) So instead of you having ported all the library's > code to PHP you would have simply written PHP code to access the > public C functions (akin to 'ipraytime' or 'idate') and that > simplifies life for everyone involved - you'll simply have to worry > about the interface/function calls (or API) changing and not give > a hoot about the internals of the library. Please make sure you choose a more verbose name than "idate". In PHP I know you're simply not allowed to choose such a name. > Hope that makes more sense. > > PS: Gents, do please trim your replies to include only relevant text. > Salam. > > - Nadim --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
