PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine

• Preface
• The "counter" Extension - A Continuing Example
  • Installing/Configuring
  • Predefined Constants
  • Examples
  • Counter — The Counter class
  • Basic — The basic interface
  • Extended — The extended interface
• The PHP 5 build system
  • Building PHP for extension development
  • The ext_skel script
  • Talking to the UNIX build system: config.m4
  • Talking to the Windows build system: config.w32
• Extension structure
  • Files which make up an extension
  • Basic constructs
  • The zend_module structure
  • Extension globals
  • Life cycle of an extension
  • Testing an extension
• Memory management
  • Basic memory management
  • Data persistence
  • Thread-Safe Resource Manager
• Working with variables
• Writing functions
• Working with classes and objects
• Working with resources
• Working with INI settings
• Working with streams
• PDO Driver How-To
  • Prerequisites
  • Preparation and Housekeeping
  • Fleshing out your skeleton
  • Building
  • Testing
  • Packaging and distribution
  • pdo_dbh_t definition
  • pdo_stmt_t definition
  • Constants
  • Error handling
• Extension FAQs
• Zend Engine 2 API reference
• Zend Engine 2 opcode list
  • Opcodes
• Zend Engine 1
  • Old introduction
  • Streams API for PHP Extension Authors
  • Zend API: Hacking the Core of PHP
  • TSRM API
• The future: PHP 6 and Zend Engine 3