PHP RFC: PHP Array API simplification

• Version: 0.1
• Date: 2013-04-02
• Author: Sara Golemon, pollita@php.net
• Status: Discussion
• First Published at: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/php-array-api

Adding values to PHP Array style HashTables is already very easy:

add_assoc_long(arr, "life", 42);
add_index_string(arr, 7, "A lucky number");
add_next_index_double(arr, 3.1415926535);

This header file provides similar convenience wrappers to the zend_hash_(index_)_(find|exists|del) functions to ease extension writing.

https://github.com/sgolemon/php-array-api/blob/master/php_array.h

None, it's a header. My intention at this point is to put this in main/php_array.h and include it in the installed headers target.

5.6, though non-bundled extensions could easily drop this file into their packages and use it on any PHP version >= 4.0

Could include this in Zend/ instead of main/...