Custom PHP Extensions?

[Markh789]

Hi, I'm currently a new developer to PHP Extensions!

 

I'm possibly wondering if you can cod PHP Extensions in visual basic 6? If not, what in? And what would be the easiest way?

 

Thanks for any reply's,

Mark.

[wildteen88]

I believe extensions need to be written in C (this what the PHP interpreter is written in). However have a read of the the following Zend Article

[Markh789]

Ok, Well I'm big around security and im trying in place the following code into the extension file.

 

function dllencrypt($str) {

  $str = sha1(md5(base64_encde($str . $str)));

  $str  = str_replace($str, "a", "b");

  $str  = str_replace($str, "c", "k");

  $str  = str_replace($str, "d", "r");

 

  return $str;

}

 

Yeah, basically its just a little encryption (Though there is another one that dose the same thing about 20 times) that I will be removing MD5 and designing it all by myself, this is just for testing.

 

How can I place this inside of the extension file?

[trq]

You could start here.

[corbin]

I would think it would be theoretically possible to compile PHP extensions in anything that will compile to byte code.  Your only problem would be compiling it against the PHP code....

[Markh789]

I would think it would be theoretically possible to compile PHP extensions in anything that will compile to byte code.  Your only problem would be compiling it against the PHP code....

 

So your saying, you could do this in visual basic 6 for all that I care?

[corbin]

I'm saying it's possible, but it could be very difficult.

[DarkWater]

But corbin, Zend has TONS of specific macros for memory management and creation of zvals and all sorts of stuff that are written in C, so I think you'd basically have to stick to C for extensions.

[corbin]

True....  I guess the only way really would be if you could make PHP a library, then rebuild PHP, with the non-C extension built against the library version of PHP.  Hrmmmm....

 

So, it probably is possible in the long run, but after DarkWater's comment, I would venture to say you could just learn C 500 times before you would get it to work.