Building custom PHP extension (.so)

Question

I own a high traffic website that does business in the USA and Canada. We have lots of servers but I want to make sure it\'s 100% available with no latency whatsoever.

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Answer 1

Rather than try and build an extension in C you should consider compiling your source code using HipHop instead. This will be much simpiler and run your code pretty fast.

Answer 2

I recommend to read this article:

Extension Writing Part I: Introduction to PHP and Zend

and here's how to compile:

UNIX: Compiling PHP Extensions

Build PHP extensions with SWIG

(I recommend SWIG like mario said)

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