My thanks to the contributors and for the resource documentation that:
a) has confirmed that writing extensions without recompiling PHP is possible
b) have provided sample code that requires recompilation of PHP
As a Linux newbie but experienced Windows programmer I do not have
the arcane knowledge to infer from the recompile-PHP sample how to
modify it to generate a must-recompile-php sample to a standalone extension.
I haven't used make in twenty years, and autoconf is alien to me.
I am getting to grips with .so (shared object) libraries in Unix, but I am in
the
dark and my effort would be greatly expedited by someone knowledgeable in the
art.
I therefore re-interate my request for a complete walkthrough for writing
an extension that does not require recompilation of php but can be treated
as a simple external standalone project, for later inclusion into the
Apache/PHP
module by dynamic linking.
I have installed and am running Suse 9.3, with Apache 2.0 and Php 5, all
from the Suse distribution. I have downloaded the source for Php 5.1.1, but
while
I have compiled such (in the course of the build-extension-with-recompile) I do
not
wish to rely on having to recompile PHP every time I wish to build an extension.
I have not therefore attempted to replace the distribution-Php with the
compiled-Php.
At this point, my need for such assistance is critical, as a client project is
stalled
for lack of it.
I appreciate that money is a dirty word in Linux, but time and money are being
wasted
for want of these answers, so that I would be more than happy to provide £100
for the
first proven and effective replies in each of these categories (all of which
may happily
be 'scooped' by or paid to a single person):
i) a walkthrough of the exact steps + sample code to write an extension
without
requiring re-compilation of Php and without access to Php source code
ii) as above but with access to Php source code
iii) as above (either i or ii) but with instructions to allow the project to
be initiated
and compiled within the KDE development environment
Resulting object (presumably .so) to be accessible in a distribution release of
Apache/Php
with only minor modification of a client's Apache/Php config settings.
