zephir--The simplest PHP extension development tool

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PHP extension is written in C language, Zend is the language engine, PHP kernel. In the actual writing PHP extension, need to use a lot of Zend Api, although the operation of high efficiency, but in fact, the difficulty is relatively large. See: http://php.net/manual/zh/internals2.ze1.zendapi.php

Zephir provides a high-level language syntax similar to PHP to automatically generate extended C language code, making PHP extensions very easy to write.

Official website: http://www.zephir-lang.com/
Official Installation Tutorial: http://www.zephir-lang.com/welcome.html
Need to install related dependencies under Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get install git gcc make re2c php5 php5-json Php5-dev Libpcre3-dev

Of course, other platforms according to the actual prompts, install the corresponding program can be

$ git clone https://github.com/phalcon/zephir$ cd zephir$./install-json$./install-c

Test whether the installation was successful

$ Zephir Help

Examples of use are:

$ Zephir Init utils

is generated under the current directory

Ext/utils/config.json

Then edit the Greeting.zep content under the Utils subdirectory as follows:

namespace Utils; Class Greeting {Public     static function say ()     {         var a = ' Hello World ';         Echo Strtoupper (a);     } }

The namespace here is the one that must be added, with the output uppercase "Hello,world". You can use PHP's built-in functions directly.
And then run

$ Zephir Build

You will then build utils.soin the extended directory and modify the php.ini add to add the extension. Call Method:

 
 Extended read: 
 Zephir generated by default in the C language file /ext/utils/greeting.zep.c , the core content is as follows: 
 
php_    METHOD (utils_greeting, say) {Zval *a, *_0;    Zephir_mm_grow ();    Zephir_init_var (a);    Zval_string (A, "Hello World", 1);    Zephir_init_var (_0);    Zephir_fast_strtoupper (_0, a);    Zend_print_zval (_0, 0);  Zephir_mm_restore ();} 
 The 
 can be found Zephir directly Zend API such as: Zend_print_zval. On the other hand encapsulates the Zend API, such as: Zephir_fast_strtoupper. Directly modify the file's C code, using the original PHP extension of the editing method can also be dropped. 
 
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