Extending and Embedding PHP

Extending and Embedding PHP, 9780672327049 (067232704X), Sams Publishing, 2006

In just a few years PHP has rapidly evolved from a small niche language to a powerful web development tool. Now in use on over 14 million Web sites, PHP is more stable and extensible than ever. However, there is no documentation on how to extend PHP; developers seeking to build PHP extensions and increase the performance and functionality of their PHP applications are left to word of mouth and muddling through PHP internals without systematic, helpful guidance. Although the basics of extension writing are fairly easy to grasp, the more advanced features have a tougher learning curve that can be very difficult to overcome. This is common at any moderate to high-traffic site, forcing the company hire talented, and high-priced, developers to increase performance. With Extending and Embedding PHP, Sara Golemon makes writing extensions within the grasp of every PHP developer, while guiding the reader through the tricky internals of PHP.

About the Author

Sara Golemon is a self-described terminal geek (pun intended). She has been involved in the PHP project as a core developer for nearly four years and is best known for approaching the language "a little bit differently than everyone else"; a quote you're welcome to take as either praise or criticism. She has worked as a programmer/analyst at the University of California, Berkeley for the past six years after serving the United States District Courts for several years prior. Sara is also the developer and lead maintainer of a dozen PECL extensions as well as libssh2, a non-PHP related project providing easy access to the SSH2 protocol. At the time of this writing, she is actively involved with migrating the streams layer for Unicode compatibility in PHP6.

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