Web Application Development with PHP 4.0

Creating Variables

When exchanging data from your own extensions with PHP scripts, one of the most important issues is the creation of variables. This section shows you how to deal with the variable types that PHP supports.

Overview

To create new variables that can be seen "from the outside" by the executing script, you need to allocate a new zval container, fill this container with meaningful values, and then introduce it to Zend's internal symbol table. This basic process is common to all variable creations:

 zval *new_variable; /* allocate and initialize new container */ MAKE_STD_ZVAL(new_variable); /* set type and variable contents here, see the following sections */ /* introduce this variable by the name "new_variable_name" into the symbol ...