PHP and C mix programming

[lgang]

How can I call a C function in a PHP script? I heard on windows there is an interface so that you can call win32 functions, is there a correpsonding way on Unices (solaris, linux for example)?

BTW, what is the most popular php debugging tools?

Thanks a billion

 

[KarveR]

heres teh quickref to PHP functions, some of these (alot actually) originate from C.

http://www.php.net/quickref.php

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[rycamor]

There is no method to directly call C functions inside PHP, unless you compile those functions as an extension to PHP (

http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.php).

But, if your C application can be called from the command line, with arguments, such as "myprogram arg1 arg2", or any combination of command-line calls (including piping), then PHP will talk to it just fine (

http://php.net/exec).

As you can see from the last link, there are several methods for program execution, depending on just how you want the execute, capture output, errors, etc...

If you have any experience with Perl, PHP's program execution functions are very similar. -------------------------------------------

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