[Info-vax] PHP Update for VMS in the works?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 08-08-2010 22:25, Malcolm Dunnett wrote:
> Does anyone know if HP has any plans to release an update for PHP for
> VMS? The VMS kit is at version 5.2.6 and the latest release of PHP is
> 5.3.3.
>
> I'm also curious if there's any plans to include the SPL extensions in
> an update. I ran into a problem recently where a PHP package I wanted to
> use (reading/writing Excel 2007 files) required SPL. In particular it
> appears to use the autoload functions and some array object stuff. I
> worked around the autoload by adding explicit require commands for all
> the needed modules (tedious but not a show stopper) but then I ran into
> the arrayobject not being there and I'm not enough of a PHP programmer
> to figure out how to work around that one.
>
> I have downloaded the source kit and I'm going to look at building the
> SPL extension, but I have a suspicion that if it was that
> straightforward HP would have done it already.

Have they released the source of all their changes making
it possible for other to build new PHP versions with
the VMS changes?

Arne