Writing a PHP 7 extension

Developing a PHP Extension puts you halfway between PHP's core and user-scripts, giving you access to more possibilities and sometimes better performances.

Coding in C and discovering Zend and PHP APIs can be a bit frightening at first but, with a good guide, you will quickly learn the basics required to develop a first extension.

Ce livre présente les différents concepts entrant en jeu lors de la mise en place d’une Extension PHP, illustrant chacun d’entre eux de nombreux exemples de code visant à faciliter leur mise en pratique.

In this “Writing a PHP 7 extension” book and its 300+ pages, you will find chapters about the following matters:

• Creating a first extension
• Development environment
• Developing a PHP extension on Windows
• Writing a function
• zval: PHP's variables
• Memory
• HashTable and arrays
• Classes and objects
• Errors and exceptions
• Configuration using a .ini file
• Automated testing
• Working with streams
• Resources
• Advanced configuration of the compilation and loading of your extension, including how to use an external library
• A few other points: super-globals, constants, phpinfo(), executing PHP code, using callback functions
• Zend extensions

After you have bought this book, if fixes or updates are published, you will, of course, be able to download them free of charge.