I don't know what kind of php extensions can be developed using zephir？

[AuroraYolo]

Can you give an example?

[Jeckerson]

Any type of logic that you want to ship as single compiled PHP extension. Any composer package can be rewritten in Zephir and shipped as PHP extension...

[funder7]

Hi @Jeckerson, I've just found Zephir lang, it seems interesting, but I'm trying to figure out any situation where Zephir would be a better choice than a regular php library.

Any existing project, tutorial or example would really help to figure this out.
Thank you

[dawid-czarnecki]

I would like to write an extension that will log access to certain PHP variable arrays or superglobals. Example would be:

<?php
print($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
?>

In that case when the request is being made the extension would log to a file REMOTE_ADDR of $_SERVER variable accessed. Ideally with a file name and a line number.

Is it possible to do using Zephir?

[Jeckerson]

Yes, but you will can your custom logic, not native PHP functions. You can try to implement it via PHP's hooks - https://docs.zephir-lang.com/0.12/en/lifecycle

Or use another extension, such as this example - https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.uopz-set-hook.php

[dawid-czarnecki]

I just revisited this topic and realized that uopz-set-hook won't do the job since I don't want to hook function print but any access to my super global. Here are a few other examples:

$x = base64_encode($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]) // 1
$y = $_GET["param1"] //2
$z = $y["sub_param"] // 3

@Jeckerson Do you think it's possible with Zefir?

[tamr]

For security purposes it would be great to have the extension to log any outgoing requests (get, post.. url, payload, headers) of file_get_contents, fopen, curl, fsockopen, mail, etc.