PHP tokens and opcodes : 3 useful extensions for understanding the working of Zend Engine

November 15, 2009   -   PHP   -   10 comments

“PHP tokens and opcodes” – When a PHP script is executed it goes through a number of processes, before the final result is displayed. These processes are namely: Lexing, Parsing, Compiling and Executing. In this blog post, I will walk you through all these processes with a sample example. In the end I will list [...]

PHP Extensions – How and Why?

December 9, 2008   -   PHP   -   31 comments

In this short post we will quickly see: How to write PHP extensions? Why to write PHP extensions? However before you could understand what we are going to disucss, I will recommend you to read one of  my previous post How does PHP echo’s a “Hello World”? – Behind the scene . In this post [...]

How does PHP echo's a "Hello World"? – Behind the scene

November 26, 2008   -   PHP   -   15 comments

Have you ever wondered how PHP echo’s a “Hello World” for you on the browser? Even I didn’t until I read about the PHP internals and extensions. I thought may be a few out there will be interested in exploring the other side of PHP, so here we go. In my last post I discussed [...]

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