Hi Jan, François and Adam, Thank you for the quick responses. Ah yes an extension name can be helpful. I’m talking about the extension “php-svm” of Ian Barber ( https://github.com/ianbarber/php-svm) which I made a fork of https://github.com/sjoerdmaessen/php-svm
Regards, Sjoerd On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Adam Harvey <ahar...@php.net> wrote: > On 10 December 2015 at 08:51, Sjoerd Maessen <sjoerd.maes...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > As a first time poster I'm very nervous but here we go! > > Welcome! > > > I cloned the github repo and was able to remove 1 error during the > > compilation process that had to do with ZVAL_STRING. This was an easy > error > > to fix since it came down to simply removing an argument. I've read > > https://wiki.php.net/phpng-upgrading but still I feel like there should > be > > more resources available after seeing the amount of extensions that are > > already successfully converted for PHP 7. For example I'm now stuck how > to > > fix an error like: > > > > "error: too many arguments to function ‘zend_hash_get_current_key_ex’" > > We don't really have comprehensive documentation of how internal APIs > have changed from 5 to 7. Beyond the things noted on the phpng and > phpng-upgrading pages on the wiki, the best resource is probably > lxr.php.net, where you can look up a definition on both the PHP-5.6 > and PHP-7.0 branches and see how they've changed. > > For the most part, extension API changes are largely around things > like removing indirection on zvals, HashTables now containing zvals > rather than void pointers, and strings being represented as > zend_string structs rather than paired char * and int pointers. > > > How can I continue with making this work? Any good (up-to-date) > resources? > > An IRC channel where I can help? > > There is #php.pecl on efnet — it's not the highest traffic channel, > but if you're patient there'll generally be someone around who can > help. > > Adam >
