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Posted by Richard Davey on 10/13/31 11:29
Hi Jay,
Monday, October 17, 2005, 3:20:58 PM, you wrote:
> Does anyone have any insight to this type of process? Would I have
> to build a PHP extension and compile the DLL as part of PHP's
> configuration? Ideally the DLL would be a black box that could be
> accessed utilizing functions that I build without a re-compile of
> any type.
Have only done this once, but I didn't compile the DLL into PHP
because that would have meant updating the php build every time a new
DLL was released, and updating the functions / documentation
accordingly.
The DLL was built specifically with a COM interface which I accessed
using the PHP COM functions (as I'm sure you've seen already). The DLL
authors had to rejig their original code a little, but it was a far
less painful process than compiling the DLL into PHP. However for the
next revision we are likely to move the DLL code into the .NET
framework, build a SOAP interface to it (C#) and let PHP talk to it
that way. Although that's more of a political decision than a
technical one, I'm just mentioning it incase the idea is useful for
you.
Cheers,
Rich
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Zend Certified Engineer
http://www.launchcode.co.uk
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