NYCPHP Meetup

[George Schlossnagle]

On Nov 9, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Chris Shiflett wrote:

> --- Emmanuel Décarie <emm at scriptdigital.com> wrote:
>> Before I look in my books or on the Web, anyone has a pointer to
>> what in the Apache world is called by mod_perl developers (and
>> probably others I guess) the "request loop". I'm definitely
>> interested to read more about this to clear my head on the
>> question, although, maybe it makes no sense in the context of PHP.
>> I'm especially interested in how PHP handle the request from
>> Apache/IIS (CGI/Fast CGI).
>
> Well, it only makes sense in an Apache context, of course.
>
> Geoff Young (one of the core mod_perl developers and last month's 
> speaker)
> gives a talk every once in a while named something like Programming the
> Apache Lifecycle. You can probably find some slides online somewhere.
> There's also this 6 page PDF from his book:
>
> http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters/part3.pdf
>
> If you're interested in playing around with more than just the content
> generation bit, George Schlossnagle wrote a SAPI called apache_hooks. 
> It
> exposes much more of the Apache API, although I've never actually 
> played
> with it (I keep meaning to). He'll probably speak up and mention that 
> it's
> most likely broken, since I don't think he's touched it in a while, but
> it's worth a try. :-)

It's most likely broken (though you never know); and I'm too busy to 
fix it.  I'm happy to help anyone trying to get it working again find 
the right path.  Without that you have really no access to the request 
lifecycle from PHP.

George