The gtkforphp gintrospection extension provides languages bindings for the Gobject Introspection library. Documentation and information about the library can be found at http://developer.gnome.org/gi/stable/
The bindings provide twofold functionality - the ability to read and iterate over information in a typelib, and the ability to import libraries directly into PHP as "faux" modules.
You can send comments, patches, questions here on github
This is still an experimental extension.
This extension requires the gtkforphp/glib extension as a dependency - for more information see https://github.com/gtkforphp/glib
This extension requires the gtkforphp/gobject extension as a dependency - for more information see https://github.com/gtkforphp/gobject
This extension requires the gobject introspection library development files. You can build the package manually or use your system's package manager. For example on ubuntu use
apt-get install libgirepository-1.0-dev
Then you can use phpize to install the extension against your current PHP install
phpize ./configure make && make test && make install
If you want to use a non-standard location for your PHP use
/path/to/phpize ./configure --with-php-config=/path/to/php-config make && make test && make install
make install copies gintrospection.so to the right location, but you still need to enable the module
in your php.ini file. Although the extension can be used with a webserver, it's recommended
you only use this with a cli PHP install.