Re: [PHP-DEV] compiled modules VS. code in php

2001-11-19 Thread jimmy elab
Zeev Suraski wrote: Generally, a perfect C implementation will always be quicker than a PHP implementation, because the scripting engine has its overhead. It's my impression that an average PHP script will run faster on a heavily loaded apache server than a compiled executable will get

Re: [PHP-DEV] ?php= ? sytanx again

2001-11-16 Thread jimmy elab
Andi Gutmans wrote: It seems that most people support ?php=. If no one comes up with a convincing argument against I will add ?php= later on today. BTW, I never liked the ?= syntax and opposed it at the time but I think today because many people seem to like it, it makes sense to have ?php=

Re: [PHP-DEV] rtf

2001-11-13 Thread jimmy elab
Markus Fischer wrote: Your module is only capable of producing RTF right? Not parsing it? Yes, well... depends how you interpret the word 'parsing'. If parsing is interpreted in the programmers-sense, i.e. building a parse-tree of any kind: no. I'm not interested in doing a sort of

[PHP-DEV] Re: rtf

2001-11-13 Thread jimmy elab
Manuel Lemos wrote: I have complete RTF parser and writer code written in C that I am willing to donate if anybody is willing to turn it into a PHP module. It's time we generate a platform somewhere. BTW, if you just give a RTF document module the .doc extension, Word will still be

[PHP-DEV] rtf

2001-11-12 Thread jimmy elab
Is there anybody working on an RTF (rich text format) module? If not: what requirements would one like for it to have, and for me to build it? If so: What's the state. I'm thinking of a module like the one for PDF. RTF has a few tricky parts, with respect to whitespace and tag-recognition. I've