I enjoyed Davey's IRC lecture on SPL and I was wondering what topics
people would want to see discussed? What do you want to learn more
about in this particular way?

I think the general topics of OO, XML, and MVC were high on the
popularity list. That's just from what I've seen. I don't have any
particular interests as far as discussion topics are concerned. The new
filtering extension in 5.2 has been fairly popular, so that might be a
worthy topic also.

My personal topics of interest would be: MVC, the filtering extension
and the new datetime(zone) classes.

Great Job, Davey... I really enjoyed it!  It's a tough job being the
first and I think you did a wonderful job.  I would be interested in
attending "talks" on any topic anyone wants to give.  Even if I already
am competant with the subject being presented, it's still good to get a
different perspective.

As for me, I've been playing with Phalanger, especially in the desktop
app arena.  As I get better with its ins and outs I would be willing to
present my experiences if there's interest.

I'd certainly be interested in hearing about your experiences with
Phalanger. At some point, I think we need to come up with a list of
suggested topics and all vote to see what the next topic is. That way
the talks draw as much interest as possible.

Besides MVC, the filtering extension and the new datetime(zone)
classes, I'd also love to learn about the inner workings of PHP and how
to develop PHP-extensions. Another interesting topic for everyone would
be Unicode.

Personally, I nominate Pollita for your suggestions. :P She'd be the
authority on both, I think. She literally wrote the book on extensions
and she knows a lot about the progress with internal migration toward
Unicode support.

On Nov 19, 10:14 am, "abraxas" <ron.korv...@gmail.com> wrote:

Wehn we actually talk about extensions are we talking about using C++
and making .so/.dll files or a different style. Or more like PEAR. I
would love to workout how to make .dll for within PHP :)

"Using C++ and making .so/.dll files" is generally considered to be a
PECL extension (http://pecl.php.net). I believe that was the intended
meaning of the suggested topic.

On Nov 19, 4:06 pm, "schnoodles" <josh...@hotmail.com> wrote:

The details on how to make an extension might go a bit far for 1
discussion on IRC, but the inner workings... Opcodes, zvals, what makes
php tick? How is the PHP-codebase organized? PECL would be the next
step I guess.

+1 - We need to know how to walk before we run.

I'd love a talk about embedding PHP.

How about a talk about how AJAX is used and implemented along with PHP
and REST ? It looked to be as Javascript seems rather uncommon except
for the premade libraries.

If so, that's something I would be able to prepare.