Create A Functions Library

[The Little Guy]

I was just wondering, how you I could go and make my own library of functions. When the PHP runs, it has built in functions like strtoupper, isset, in_array, addslashes, stripslashes, etc. Those are already there for use, I don't need to call a separate file or anything. How can I make my own functions, and do the same thing?

 

Any external tutorials would be great.

[Jessica]

You'll always have to include the files, but yes you can define your own functions.

What's wrong with our tutorials?

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/26/0.php

[The Little Guy]

Then why can you download a library from some web site, and not have to include it in your PHP? Like

CURL

PEAR

 

The PHP library can be expanded, I want to learn how to do it.

[scott212]

Install one of the aforementioned code libraries and look at your php.ini file. The PHP install is including them instead of each individual page. I have never done this before and really have no idea if it's a good idea to work this way.

[The Little Guy]

Here is an article I found, and it looks like I have to write the library in C++

 

http://www.devnewz.com/2002/0909.html

[The Little Guy]

I'm reading another tutorial here:

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1021

 

and I'm stuck on this part:

The final step in this exercise will be building your extension as a dynamically loadable module. If you've copied the example above correctly, this should only take three commands run from ext/hello/:

 

    $ phpize

    $ ./configure --enable-hello

    $ make

 

I have tried running those lines from the command line, but CMD doesn't understand them. Anyone have any Ideas?

[trq]

looks like I have to write the library in C++

 

PHP is written in C, not C++.

 

but CMD doesn't understand them. Anyone have any Ideas?

 

They are Linux commands.