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§Introduction
PHPER is the framework that allows us to write PHP extensions using pure and safe Rust whenever possible.
PHPER means PHP Enjoy Rust.
§Rust ❤️ PHP
The crates are not only the PHP binding for Rust, but also the framework for writing PHP extension.
§Purpose
I used to use the C language to write PHP extensions. At that time, C and C++ were the only ways to write PHP extensions.
But I found the problem was that using the C language could easily cause memory problems, which were very troublesome when debugging PHP extensions.
Moreover, third-party libraries in the C language are not easy to use, and version compatibility problems are often encountered in dynamic linking, which is inconvenient to use.
Later, Rust appeared, and I started to use C to call Rust’s FFI to develop PHP extensions. The experience was better than using only the C language.
However, it was not convenient for Rust to generate C ABI and then call C, so I got the idea of using pure Rust to write PHP extensions.
So I started building the framework for phper.
Another goal is to enable PHP to benefit from the Rust ecosystem.