PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks
Episode 27: Introducing PECL Picks
Special Guest: Elizabeth Smith
Release Date: 11/30/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Todays special guest is Elizabeth Marie Smith. I quote now from her "About Me" page of her blog, a link to which can be found in the show notes. Elizabeth has been using PHP since time immemorial but has used PHP 5 for so long now she's forgotten how she ever got by without SPL and a real object model. She is a certifiable geek, if it can be compiled on windows, she'll compile it, if not...she'll fix it so it does. She enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP as well - all this in between caring for her 4 kids and husband.
Today Elizabeth is going to share with us about PECL, the PHP Extension Community Library.
Show Notes for Episode 27
- Elizabeth's Blog
- PECL
- PECL4WIN
- Join the PECL mailing list
- Wez Furlong: PHP Extension authors - please join the PECL community
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Comments
The biggest problem I've found when trying to get into writing extensions, even if it's just for fun, is the lack of resources. The pecl web site has some links but they are not that many. And from those that there are some turned absolete since before the invention of the light bulb and the rest don't work at all.
For this reason, thank you for the book reference, Extending and Embedding PHP. Last published in 2006 so it is fairly new and possibly even worth reading. I am going to check my local book store for it shortly :)
Other than that, I look forward to the next episode. If at all possible, the more resources and advices you can share with the rest of us, the better. I cannot emphasize (hope I spelled that right) this enough. If there is a shortage in pecl developers, it's probably (at least partially) due to the lack of helpful resources in getting started.
Tomi