Hi all, tl;dr: Looking for one or more sponsors so I can apply for a PECL account, to submit a new extension for server-side PHP request and response objects (*not* HTTP messages per se; see below).
* * * From time to time we've all heard the complaint that PHP has no built-in request/context object to represent the execution environment. Userland ends up writing these themselves, and they all end up being tied to specific library collections or frameworks. Same thing for a response object, to handle the output going back to the web client. I've written them myself more than once. After doing some library and framework research (linked later) it looks like there is a reasonable common set of request/response functionality across all of them, and that would also be useful to non-framework users. I wrote up a userland implementation for that limited common subset of functionality, and John Boehr then used that as a reference point for the C version. It's PHP 7.x only. You can see the result at <https://gitlab.com/pmjones/phprequest>. The extension provides fundamental server-side request and response objects for PHP. They are not HTTP message objects proper. They are more like wrappers for existing global PHP variables and functions, with some limited additional convenience functionality. It provides two classes: - StdRequest, essentially a read-only struct composed of PHP superglobals and some other commonly-used values - StdResponse, essentially a wrapper around (and buffer for) response-related PHP functions, with some additional convenience methods, and self-sending capability The userland reference implementation is in the "refimpl/" directory, and the research sources are in "refimpl/notes/". It seems like the next step, then, is for an existing PECL person to sponsor my application to PECL, so I can register for an account, then submit this work to PECL via whatever collaboration process is appropriate. I'm happy to answer any questions, and undergo any criticism, that you may have regarding this. So: any sponsors want to take this up? -- Paul M. Jones http://paul-m-jones.com -- PECL development discussion Mailing List (http://pecl.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
