[PHP-DEV] Long time gone From: Brian Schaffner (b.schaffner <email protected>)
Date: 04/27/98

Hello all...

I've been away from PHP for a few months working on some projects in Cold Fusion and ASP - and I think that PHP blows them both away except for one thing: components. How difficult would it be to support ActiveX objects (on windows platform) and CORBA inside of PHP? Seams like the biggest impact would be on the parser - but since PHP already (I assume it still does) supports the object-oriented syntax, I assume it wouldn't be too big a deal.

I think there would have to be some type of flag on the symbol to indicate that it really isn't an array. There would have to be some type of mapping in the parser to bind object methods to actual function pointers. Maybe there would be some type of parameter check mechanism to verify the number of parameters - maybe it would support overloading as well?

Anyway - are there any other thoughts out there on supporting components? I am very willing to invest the time in development if others see a value in it. This might be a valuable way to extend PHP using some "standard" technologies.

-Brian Schaffner-

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