Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-29 Thread Heiko Maiwald
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Exactly. When you do ./configure --with-foo=shared; make > > then modules/foo.so will appear magically and you can dl() that or load it > > using "extension=foo.so" in your php.ini. You don't have to recompile > > PHP. > > > > -Rasmus > > I am afraid that is only

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

2001-08-29 Thread Mark Charette
29, 2001 2:58 PM Subject: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries Hi folks I asked my ISP to flesh out their negative comments about adding libraries to PHP. This is their reply - is there anything in this, or are they misunderstanding the situation? We run servers. We want

RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

2001-08-29 Thread Richard Heyes
So it looks like this is mostly a documentation issue. We have not done a good job educating the ISPs out there. But they should have been able to figure this out by looking at how PHP is packaged by the various distribution vendours. Perhaps a section in the manual dedicated to ISP

RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

2001-08-29 Thread Brian Tanner
: PHP General Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries So it looks like this is mostly a documentation issue. We have not done a good job educating the ISPs out there. But they should have been able to figure this out by looking at how PHP is packaged by the various

RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

2001-08-29 Thread Dan Harrington
Here's an idea. Provide commercial PHP support for ISP's for a fee. Yearly subscriptions ? via email? -Original Message- From: Brian Tanner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-29 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 11:13 29-08-01, Geoff Caplan wrote: I am not very technical, as you will have gathered. But all I can do is pass on the view of my (rather good) ISP. They offer Java, Perl and PHP, and say that they find PHP much the most difficult to extend. Can you elaborate on what you (or they) mean by

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - object model

2001-08-29 Thread Zeev Suraski
If I didn't know you're not working for Zend, I'd suspect that was a prepared-question :) http://www.zend.com/engine2/ZendEngine-2.0.pdf At 11:26 29-08-01, Geoff Caplan wrote: Hi folks While we are on the subject of strategic issues for PHP, a quick question on the OOP functionality. As many

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Look at it from their point of view. Say, as a customer, you want to use library X. The ISP looks around and eventually find it lives on a personal site in Greece or Hungary. Not very confidence inspiring. The ftp on this site is broken, so they email the author and wait a couple of days

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Something which seems to not be a viable option for most things is SO files. For some reason, the only real way (documented) to get things into PHP is to compile them all into PHP. I've used the pdflib SO file and just used dl() to bring it in - works like a champ. Pity I can't do that for

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Kimsal
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Look at it from their point of view. Say, as a customer, you want to use library X. The ISP looks around and eventually find it lives on a personal site in Greece or Hungary. Not very confidence inspiring. The ftp on this site is broken, so they email the author and wait

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Kimsal
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Something which seems to not be a viable option for most things is SO files. For some reason, the only real way (documented) to get things into PHP is to compile them all into PHP. I've used the pdflib SO file and just used dl() to bring it in - works like a champ. Pity

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
That's not allowing me to simply dl() an SO file, because I don't have the SO file to start with - that's what I was trying to get at. If I have to reconfigure everything, there's not much point, I don't think. Unless I'm missing something obvious. I'd like to be able to simply have an

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Christopher CM Allen
Exactly. When you do ./configure --with-foo=shared; make then modules/foo.so will appear magically and you can dl() that or load it using extension=foo.so in your php.ini. You don't have to recompile This is very good news! I must have mis-rad the manual on this part!! Is there any way to

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Miles Thompson
Geoff (and the list) ... You have presented an excellent, well-reasoned case, which I endorse 100 percent. You also raised issues I have not had to consider, as my development has been for lightly loaded servers under my control, with only the PostgreSQL and MySQL libraries required. I'll

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Kimsal
Geoff Caplan wrote: Rasmus wrote This is solved by people who roll distributions. Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, FreeBSD, etc. It is very simple to add new features to an existing PHP setup through these binary distributions of PHP, even for newbies. Once you know your way around PHP and its

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Heiko Maiwald
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That's not allowing me to simply dl() an SO file, because I don't have the SO file to start with - that's what I was trying to get at. If I have to reconfigure everything, there's not much point, I don't think. Unless I'm missing something obvious. I'd

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP - accessory libraries

2001-08-28 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Exactly. When you do ./configure --with-foo=shared; make then modules/foo.so will appear magically and you can dl() that or load it using extension=foo.so in your php.ini. You don't have to recompile PHP. -Rasmus I am afraid that is only theory. I tried that for the snmp module

RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

2001-08-27 Thread Navid Yar
: Monday, August 27, 2001 6:11 AM To: Geoff Caplan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries Geoff Caplan said: I would just like to highlight an issue which I feel has a negative effect on the acceptance of PHP. This is the difficulty of finding

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP

2001-08-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Geoff Caplan« am 2001-08-27 um 11:26:09 +0100 : standard, and no central repository. This compares badly with platforms such as Perl and Java, who tackled this issue long ago. Actually, I think you're right. On the one hand, it's quite nice that there are so many librariries which

RE: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

2001-08-27 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
I love PHP, but for the following reason it could be the death of it. All the PHP intellectuals stand up, get together, and solve this problem, or at least give us some reassurance. (I'm only a newbie after all). :) This is solved by people who roll distributions. Debian, Mandrake, RedHat,

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP

2001-08-23 Thread Christopher CM Allen
Greetings Php'ers: 2 cents bahh to servelts-asp these are new kids on the block. Template this or that, it doesnt matter, most templates are for lazy peeps anyways :) , a solid base of people have been using phtml-php for years. It doesnt matter to me what the e-zines say about which is more

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP

2001-08-23 Thread Hugh Bothwell
Christopher Cm Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 003201c12be2$f9309b00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:003201c12be2$f9309b00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Greetings Php'ers: 2 cents bahh to servelts-asp these are new kids on the block. Template this or that, it doesnt matter, most templates are for

Re: [PHP] Re: The future of PHP

2001-08-22 Thread Thomas Deliduka
On 8/22/2001 10:52 PM this was written: I don't know if you refer to this list or other one, but I've been a webmaster since 1993 and in computers in general since 1988 and I also consider myself of the advanced type. It definitely wasn't this list. It's another one. -- Thomas Deliduka IT