Posted by Oli Filth on 09/14/05 18:19

Drazen Gemic wrote:
> Is there any initiative out there aiming to rewrite PHP
> extensions in pure PHP ? For example, MySQL driver in
> pure PHP or LDAP extension in pure PHP ?

I doubt it...

> With Java and, as far as I know, Perl, one can extend the
> language capabilities without having access to any command
> like gcc, g++, cc or c++ on a system.

Things like database access libraries (and comms protocols like
sockets, cURL, etc. AFAIK) rely on platform-specific libraries
deep-down, so there's no way you could could replicate them in pure
PHP.

Things like GD (graphics) could be done, theoretically, but would be
*horrifically* inefficient.

The only ones that would ever be worth implementing would be "simple"
platform-independent things, like XML functions, tidy, diff.

--
Oli

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