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<p>
SWIG supports generating wrappers for PHP5. Support for PHP4 has been removed
as of SWIG 1.3.37. The PHP developers are no longer making new PHP4 releases,
SWIG supports generating wrappers for PHP5. Support for PHP4 was removed
in SWIG 1.3.37. The PHP developers are no longer making new PHP4 releases,
and won't even be patching critical security issues after 2008-08-08, so it
doesn't make much sense for SWIG to continue to support PHP4 at this point.
If you need to continue to use PHP4, stick with SWIG 1.3.36.
doesn't make much sense for SWIG to continue to support PHP4 now. If you
really need to continue to use PHP4, just stick with SWIG 1.3.36.
</p>
<p>
Currently any PHP5 release should work, but we don't regularly test with
PHP &lt; 5.3.
</p>
<p>
In this chapter, we discuss SWIG's support of PHP. The PHP module
was extensively rewritten in release 1.3.26, and support for generating
OO wrappers for PHP5 was added in 1.3.30. The PHP module works fairly
well, but currently does not implement all the
features available in some of the other languages.
OO wrappers for PHP5 was added in 1.3.30. The PHP module now supports most
of the features available in some of the other languages.
</p>
<p>
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It is important to understand that PHP uses a single global namespace
into which all symbols from extension modules are loaded. It is quite
possible for names of symbols in one extension module to clash with
other symbols unless care is taken to <tt>%rename</tt> them.
other symbols unless care is taken to <tt>%rename</tt> them. At present
SWIG doesn't have support for the namespace feature added in PHP 5.3.
</p>
<H3><a name="Php_nn2_1"></a>31.2.1 Constants</H3>
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<p>
SWIG defaults to wrapping C++ structs and classes with PHP classes
unless "-noproxy" is specified. For PHP5, a PHP wrapper
class is generated which calls a set of flat functions wrapping the C++ class.
SWIG defaults to wrapping C++ structs and classes with PHP classes - this
is done by generating a PHP wrapper script which defines proxy classes
which calls a set of flat functions which actually wrap the C++ class.
You can disable this wrapper layer by passing the command-line option
"-noproxy" in which case you'll just get the flat functions.
</p>
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