Re: Extension class inherit from PHP class

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 16:33 -0700, Trevan Richins wrote:
> I'm wondering if it is possible to have a class defined in a C extension 
> inherit from a class defined in PHP.  
[...]
> Is there something that I'm missing or is this even possible?  

It's nothing that's supposed tobe possible. The engine is designed in a
way that internal classes are registered on module startup and survive
multiple requests and are destroyed on PHP module shutdown.

The only hack to do what you want I can image is to manually unregister
it on request shutdown. While I have no idea what the consequences for
opcode caches and similar thing might be.

> If you are wondering why I'm doing this, it is an attempt to speed up legacy
>  code.  I plan to move slow methods from Grandchild to Child while leaving
>  the normal hierarchy intact.

Well, I'd rather rethink the approach. Either make your internal class
the base class or make the existing functions proxies calling global
function/methods from some specific class.

johannes