Re: [PHP-DEV] Content of this list??? From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 09/30/00

At 09:44 AM 9/29/00 +0000, Garret Thomson wrote:
>[snip]
>I think you make a valid point (my filter engine feels loved ;) .. I just
>wanted to make
>sure that this list was appropriate for the discussion of extensions that
>would never be
>'released' to the general public, but were rather being developed in-house
>to solve and
>glue in-house systems.
>
>I realize that usually, in most places, data is stored and accessed
>through some sort of
>open standard system (SQL, LDAP, etc .. ) for which the development of
>extensions benifit
>us all, but there exists some places where data is still stored in binary
>files, accessed
>through an internally developed API. I was getting sick of the overhead of
>writing trivial
>tools in C for this data, so I figured I might as well develop an
>extension so I could get
>at the data through PHP. But this wouldn't benifit anyone else. Only me.
>:) So it isn't
>really the development of PHP in so far as the development of our software
>through the PHP
>API.
>
>Anyhow, maybe I'm over explaining. If I can discuss my problems here, then
>I'm happy. =)

I think the discussions would benefit everyone even if your code is
in-house code. The end result will probably be more people understanding
how to write extensions.

Andi 

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Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>
http://www.zend.com/

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