Experimental PHP binding for libvips

This is an incomplete and experimental PHP binding for libvips.

Examples

<?php
	dl('vips.' . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);

	$image = vips_image_new_from_file($argv[1]);

	# you can call any vips operation 
	$result = vips_call("invert", $image);

	# the result is an array of the output objects, we just want the
	# image
	$image = $result["out"];

	vips_image_write_to_file($image, $argv[2]);
?>

<?php
	dl('vips.' . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);

	# you can pass optional arguments as a final array arg
	# enums can be set with a string
	$image = vips_image_new_from_file($argv[1], array("access" => "sequential"));

	# set args to true to get optional output args added to result
	$result = vips_call("min", $image, array("x" => true, "y" => true));

	$mn = $result["out"];
	$x = $result["x"];
	$y = $result["y"];

	# show position of minimum
	echo "min = ", $mn, "\n";
	echo "x = ", $x, "\n";
	echo "y = ", $y, "\n";
?>

Preparation

PHP is normally built for speed and is missing a lot of debugging support you need for extension development. For testing and dev, build your own php. I used 7.0.10 and configured with:

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/john/vips --enable-debug --enable-maintainer-zts \
	--enable-cgi --enable-cli --with-readline

Regenerate build system

Run:

$ phpize

To scan config.m4 and your php install and regenerate the build system.

Configuring

Run

$ ./configure 

Check the output carefully for errors, and obviously check that it found your libvips.

Installing

Run:

$ make

To build the module to the modules/ directory in this repository.

Don't post php-vips test results to php.net! Stop this with:

$ export NO_INTERACTION=1

Test with:

$ make test

Finally, install to your php extensions area with:

$ make install

Using

Try:

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
	dl('vips.' . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);
	$x = vips_image_new_from_file($argv[1]);
	$x = vips_call("invert", $x)["out"];
	vips_image_write_to_file($x, $argv[2]);
?>

And run with:

$ ./try1.php ~/pics/k2.jpg x.tif

See examples/.

TODO

• still need to do boxed types in vips_call

  try reading an icc profile from an image, for example

• new_from_memory, new_from_array etc.

• array args, so we can do linear etc.

• make a wrapper over this thing in php which gives it a nice API, including exceptions, automatic member lookup, properties, and so on

links

http://php.net/manual/en/internals2.php

https://devzone.zend.com/303/extension-writing-part-i-introduction-to-php-and-zend/

https://devzone.zend.com/317/extension-writing-part-ii-parameters-arrays-and-zvals/

https://devzone.zend.com/446/extension-writing-part-iii-resources/