Writing a PHP Extension

• Requires PHP 5

• Written in pure PHP

• Uses XML description of extension to create

• Creates Visual Studio project files in addition to config.m4

PECL_Gen example



...
    <function role='internal' name='MINFO'>
      <code>
<![CDATA[
  php_info_print_table_start();
  php_info_print_table_header(2, "test", "table");
  php_info_print_table_end();
]]>
      </code>
    </function>
...