Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 08/11/07 08:16

Michael Fesser wrote:

> You would be surprised how many of PHP's functions are just wrappers
> around external libraries. I would say that's the case for >90% of it.

I *am* surprised.

>> Seems to me, if I was the PHP guys, I wouldn't have made it so.
>
> You would have rewritten all the functions of the MySQL library in PHP?
> Think about it ...

No - not all. Didn't say that; didn't imply it.

I just thought that the subset of MySQL-related features were entirely
within the PHP binaries.

I guess I now know why PHP with MySQL support has to be compiled to
include the MySQL libraries.

Personally - I'm a recovering Microsoftie, so this whole thing about
compiling and recompiling other people's applications, with other other
people's applications still totally blows me away.

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