Re: Advice Mixing PHP and Lua?

[troels knak-nielsen <troelskn@...>]

Which libraries in particular are you using from php?

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troels

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Bertrand Mansion <lua@mamasam.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Patrick
> <spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I am new to Lua and still reading Roberto's book. I am absolutely loving
>> everything that I have learned so far. It's amazing how many things are
>> the way I was hoping they would be in the other languages that I learned
>> but were not.
>>
>> I am going to use Lua with C++ and it looks like a perfect match already
>> but I also want to do some web based stuff. PHP just has such a large
>> set of libraries of which one I have already become Dependant on. Lua
>> seems like a better language but PHP has such a head start with the web.
>> What would be the best way to mesh PHP code and Lua? I know there is a
>> PECL extension for embedding the Lua interpretor, has anyone else used
>> this?Is there a better way?
>>
>> Thanks in advance-Patrick
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> If you want to go PHP+Lua, the best is to use the PECL extension. You
> can try my branch here, I have fixed a few little things:
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/lua/branches/NO_LUA_TABLE/
>
> I use this in my trylua experiment and it's working great.
> http://trylua.mamasam.com
>
> The PECL extension needs more love, if you want to work on it, you are
> welcome, just let me know.
>
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> Bertrand Mansion
> Mamasam
>