Hey, You know that mysql now includes an embedded mysql "server" library? Well, a few months ago I decided to take a look - it was experimental then (and probably still is) so I had to build it myself.
Then I needed to add support to PHP, so I copied the mysql extension code and renamed all the PHP functions from mysql_xxx to mysqlemd_xxx, compiled it and got it working. It's since been suffering from bit-rot. It would be cool to offer support for this to PHP. Now, since the extension code is the same as the mysql extension but with different names for the PHP functions, it would be nice if we had some way to build both the regular network client and embedded variants from the same code base (to avoid maintenance nightmares!). What would be really, really cool would be being able to use both the embedded and network variants in the same installation (same script even). How can we do that?? C pre-proc trickery might work for the compilation. But what about symbol collision if we are linking to two different libraries that have the same symbol names? I'm thinking mainly of win32 here: I can see a potential use for the embedded mysql library to maintain a local database which is used in an "offline" state, but updates and queries come from a remote database when online. I *think* that if we build both extensions as DLLs things will work sensibly. Does anyone have any ideas or comments about this? --Wez. -- Wez Furlong The Brain Room Ltd. -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
