Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] Re[2]: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src(PHP_4_3) /ext/pdf CREDITS config.m4 pdf.c pdf.dsp php_pdf.h
Hello, Monday, September 13, 2004, 8:38:57 PM, you wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Rainer Schaaf wrote: Derick assigned the Bug #29297 to me and asked me to repair this. As it is already repaired in the main CVS (Wez moved the PDFlib extension a while ago to PECL), I thought the best solution would be to remove it here too and point to the PECL repository for people looking for this. But it looks like this was an bad idea, so what else should I do? Repairing != removing ;-) I assigned it to you so that you could tweak the config.m4 to check for version 6 of the library, and bail out in case it found that version. For me it was one possibility to repair it by removing it (giving the hint where to find a substitution). The other possibilities would be to merge the latest version from PECL to PHP_4_3, or checking for PDFlib6 (and then consequently for PDFlib5 too, as this wrapper only supports PDFlib up to Version 4.x). Merging the latest version from PECL would not be a solution, as it only supports PDFlib 5/6 and not the older versions of PDFlib. This would break the compatibility (In PECL we have to versions of the PDFlib extension one for PDFlib 3/4 and one for PDFlib 5/6). So I thought the best thing is to give the peoples the possibility to choose the right thing and use the PECL extension they would like to use. I hope it is more clear now why I got the idea that removing is some kind of repairing here. As I did put pack the old version, the question remains on how to solve the Bug #29297? -- Best regards, Rainer Schaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pdflib.com Personalize PDF: PDFlib Personalization Server and Block plugin ___PDFlib - a library for generating PDF on the fly -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DEV] New PDFlib extension for PHP5
Hello, I'm maintaining the PDFlib wrapper code for the pdf extenions of PHP. I did a major rewrite of the wrapper for PDFlib 6 and PHP 5 and wanted to ask whether it is good idea to check in this code now (short before the release of PHP 5). My idea is to add this new Wrappercode as an extra module and keep the existing wrapper code for peoples using the old PDFlib 4 version. This is necessary because there are incompatible changes between PDFlib 4 and 5 which made a new wrapper module necessary. Here the details about the new wrapper code: This PDFlib Wrapper Code works with PDFlib 5 and higher. A new module was introduced, as PDFlib 5 supports a method to handle the special returnvalues needed for PHP in the PDFlib core now. This is necessary, as the new concept of optionlists in PDFlib allows to pass handles to PDFlib objects and filenames inside of optionlists. Before the wrapper added some offset to handles returned by PDFlib to fit into scheme used by php to return 0 in case of errors, whereas in PDFlib the errorcode is -1 and 0 is a valid handle. As the optionlist may contain filenames on various places the VIRTUAL_DIR support and the CHECK_OPEN_BASEDIR checks implemented in the wrapper will not work reliable too. So VIRTUAL_DIR support and the CHECK_OPEN_BASEDIR checking is disabled here too, as it would only work for some of the files used with PDFlib. The main changes: - only official PDFlib API's are included (exception pdf_open_memory_image) - supports PDFlib 5 and PDFlib 6 - builds with older PHP Version too (tested with PHP 4.1.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0, and 5.0.0RC2.) - adds an Object Oriented API to PDFlib (for PHP 5 only) - uses PHP exceptions (for PHP 5 only) - disables VIRTUAL_DIR support (use SerachPath instead) - disables CHECK_OPEN_BASEDIR checks - changed old API's with varargs to only accept all args now I think it is worth to include this now, so that PHP5 comes with this new code, but I wanted to discuss this first. -- Best regards, Rainer Schaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pdflib.com Personalize PDF: PDFlib Personalization Server and Block plugin ___PDFlib - a library for generating PDF on the fly -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
