The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled
with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?) I
downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:

PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
These options need to match

From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even though
it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module API
from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that ffi
isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a ready-to-use
PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?

Boris

Boris wrote:[color=blue]
> The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
> that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled
> with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
> called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?) I
> downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
> http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
> extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
>
> PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
> Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> These options need to match
>
> From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even though
> it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module API
> from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that ffi
> isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
> last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a ready-to-use
> PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
>
> Boris[/color]

Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
experimental stage.

"Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com>,
news:1138324544.623561.61790@z14g2000cwz.googlegro ups.com...[color=blue]
>
> Boris wrote:[color=green]
>> The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
>> that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer
>> bundled
>> with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
>> called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the
>> documentation?) I
>> downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
>> http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
>> extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
>>
>> PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
>> Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
>> PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
>> These options need to match
>>
>> From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even
>> though
>> it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module
>> API
>> from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that
>> ffi
>> isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
>> last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a
>> ready-to-use
>> PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
>>
>> Boris[/color]
>
> Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
> experimental stage.[/color]

But even though it was experimental you could at least try your luck. Right
now you can't even load the extension.

Boris

Boris wrote:[color=blue]
> "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com>,
> news:1138324544.623561.61790@z14g2000cwz.googlegro ups.com...[color=green]
> >
> > Boris wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
> >> that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer
> >> bundled
> >> with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
> >> called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the
> >> documentation?) I
> >> downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
> >> http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
> >> extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
> >>
> >> PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
> >> Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> >> PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> >> These options need to match
> >>
> >> From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even
> >> though
> >> it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module
> >> API
> >> from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that
> >> ffi
> >> isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
> >> last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a
> >> ready-to-use
> >> PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
> >>
> >> Boris[/color]
> >
> > Was it ever alive? I don't think it ever made it out of the
> > experimental stage.[/color]
>
> But even though it was experimental you could at least try your luck. Right
> now you can't even load the extension.
>
> Boris[/color]

In my experience the extension was highly unstable.

Boris wrote:[color=blue]
> The PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.w32api.php says
> that W32api has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled
> with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. After I finally found out that W32api is now
> called or replaced by ffi (why isn't that mentioned in the documentation?) I
> downloaded php_ffi.dll directly from
> http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ffi.dll. When you try to load this
> extension in PHP 5.1.2 though you get a warning:
>
> PHP Startup: Unable to initialize module
> Module compiled with module API=20041030, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> PHP compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=1
> These options need to match
>
> From what I understand the source code of ffi is simply too old. Even though
> it is automatically compiled every day it seems to be based on a module API
> from 2004. Does this mean that W32api is dead? It also seems like that ffi
> isn't updated any more - according to http://pecl.php.net/package/ffi the
> last version was released in January 2004. Is there somewhere a ready-to-use
> PHP extension for PHP 5.1.2 to call functions in a Windows DLL?
>
> Boris
>
>[/color]
It probably only works with older versions of PHP, probably far before
PHP 5. Have seen this message a few times when I tried to load of a
custom imagick dll in a new PHP version as there was now new imagick
version. Downgrading (for the time being) to a lower PHP version solved
my problem back then.

Jonathan