Varuna's Report for the two weeks starting: 2009-08-01

--00504502b8514b5c1a04713f04e0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TIME SPENT ~35 hours HIGHLIGHTS - Received some suggestions from the community (mailing list) - Fixed a problem with win32 build - included zend_eapi.c in config.w32 - TSRMLS parameters are passed to callbacks to improve performance - Added support for extensions loaded through dl() - When a extension (say ext_dl) is loaded through dl() the callbacks of other extensions (already loaded) are called, if they require the ext_dl and the versions

[gsoc] PhD Online Editor - progress @ August5

--0016e647548881b6c90470601a25 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, doc-editor is now live again after cvs2svn. A svn-client is implemented for doc-editor. Certain testes are done against my development Subversion server and the one on svn.php.net. Some outstanding problems remain for the cvs2svn migration of doc-editor. - svn diff fail due to the difference in revision numbering scheme of cvs and svn - svn diff fail due to cvs2svn diff information are lost - using svn native-client over HTTP may sometimes fail * svn diff f

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report 8

--001636416d11d0b96e04703e59c0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, This is my 8th status report (20 July to 1 August). HIGHLIGHTS ----------------------------- In the last two weeks I wrote the support to XML Processing Instructions, did some fixes in trunk and wrote some proof-of-concepts about how to test PhD. Now is time to write tests. We're also planning to implement a new feature to allow the use of customized indexers. Now the IDE-Package(package to create output formats to help the PHP IDEs, and create funclist.txt an

[gsoc] PhD Online Editor - progress @ July24

--000e0cd3047029d953046f6c7617 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, AS svn-migration is complete the project is now on http://svn.php.net/viewvc/web/doc-editor/trunk/ You may have a look into the codes by "svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/web/doc-editor/trunk doc-editor" What I've done thus far from the last progress report is that I factored the php files from the ground to the top. The single pain-long (yup, pain-long not plain-long as that's really painful!) class.php is now separated into dozen of files in which each

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report 7

--001485f5ce6a236586046f25b9f3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, This is my 7th status report (05 July to 19 July). HIGHLIGHTS ----------------------------- This week I fixed some bugs, made some improvements in the factory system (now the formats are dynamically loaded, no more predefined formats), some refactorings in the Format classes and started reading about XML Processing Instructions and dbhtml. This weekend I started writing an example Package http://gitorious.org/phd-ide-package (to render the Philip Olson's alpha

Varuna's Report for the three weeks starting: 2009-06-28

--0016361e89620ce82b046f1faec2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TIME SPENT ~55 hours HIGHLIGHTS Changes to the callbacks and testing DETAILED ACTIVITIES I changed callback registration so that callbacks could be registered for a specific version of a extension, or for the latest version of a extension. If the extension depends on multiple extensions then it can use a generic callback, which will be called after all the extension have been initialized and the extension APIs could be retrieved using zend_eapi_get or zend_eapi_get_lat

XDebug code coverage update - 14th July

I haven't written a project update since June 7th but I have managed to complete some of the objectives I had: *I increased the resolution of Xdebug's counting process from the line to the opline - so the individual ops for each line are now tracked and counted. This is necessary for any kind of branch analysis. See the example below. * I've added counting decisions and branches. A decision is created by control flow statements - if/else for/do/while and the ? operator and are usually implement by an IS_SMALLER and JMPNZ or JUMPZNZ instruction. A branch occurs on whether the condit

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report 6

--001485f5b196f9347f046e0a36ad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, This is my 6th status report (28 June to 04 July). HIGHLIGHTS ----------------------------- This week was very productive, I wrote all the xhtml formats from the PHP Package (chunked, big, web, howto) and the manpage output format (functions) \o/. Now I have to port the PDF and CHM formats. After that, tests and remove the old code from HEAD (maybe a new release? :) ). Now is time to make the midterms evaluations. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS -----------------------

[gsoc] PhD Online Editor - progress @ July3

--0016363b86de025f99046dc8b0b2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, A progress update on the GSOC - PhD Online Editor project. The first milestone is reached. The main ui namespace is cleared and broke into many ui-components and worker tasks. For those unique (tailor-made) ui-components, singleton is applied to them. For those reusable components, they keep a single config. My second milestone is to refactor the php request handlers' namespace. Currently, it's under a single dispatcher structure which handlers are messed up

Varuna's Report for the two weeks starting: 2009-06-15

--000e0cd146789d9ff7046d50cf3d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HIGHLIGHTS Coded the callback registration DETAILED ACTIVITIES Callback functions registered by dependent extensions in MINIT are called from php_module_startup (main/main.c), once all extensions have been initialized. I've added some sample code which uses callbacks at *git:// github.com/vpj/PHP_EXT_API_Tests.git.* I also wrote a simple (very small :) ) tutorial on how to use it on my blog<http://www.xvpj.net/2009/06/26/how-to-use-php-extension-api-dependancy-interfac

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report 4

--000e0cd28d14cb2602046cefc292 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, This is my 4th status report (14 June to 20 June). HIGHLIGHTS ----------------------------- This week I wrote the Default package, that will be the base of the next packages (TDG, ProducingOSS). Also I started porting the Pear Themes to the new design. PhD now is working with namespaces and pear conventions \o/, kudos to Christian Weiske that made the changes so fast. One day I'll be as fast as you guys ;) KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS -----------------------------

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report 3

--00163642702bd2b98e046c5d2924 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all, This is my third status report (7 June to 13 June). This week I proposed a design for merging PhD Enterprise to HEAD http://img30.yfrog.com/img30/2370/design2.png. With that design we will be able to use all the features of PhD Enterprise and the current output formats of HEAD (using adapters), the formats will be grouped in packages and the packages are pluggable. We will reuse almost all the classes of PhD Enterprise, the PhDFormatFactory class was written in my

[benchmarks] GSoC report

--0016e6db66fa82e0e6046c03992b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi again This is another report of my work. I've mostly been looking for a solution for memory handling in the benchmarks project and found out that the smaps-sampling solution used by the "unladen shadow" google project was a good solution, but not optimal. It would have been better to have a solution that also worked for windows, but I could not find anyone that could do it in a good and proper way. I've submitted these diff's for reviews (Have anyone really seen them?).

GSoC XDebug code coverage update - 7th June

This week I got Sara Golemon's book so I could figure out just what the heck was actually happening inside PHP and together with Andy Wharmby's slides and the PHP code I've made the following progress: So basically: * I understand the meanings of the macros like EG and TSRML_*and how they relate to threading/non-threading environments and memory management * I understand the use of the TSRM functions and macros and casts for allocating memory for module specific data - so XG is just the TSRM-aware macro for referring to the XDebug module globals structure * I understand zvals

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report 2

--001636c5a66357a114046bb68aab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, This is my second status report (31 May to 6 June). This week I began merging stuff from PhD Enterprise to HEAD. The Enterprise branch has a really better design than HEAD. The indexer is storaged on a SQLite database, some design patterns were used and there are not themes, only output formats. On the other hand, Enterprise is no longer updated and doesn't have as many output formats as HEAD. As I said in my last report I'll make this merge throughout the project

XDebug Update - 1st June 2009

The 1st week I've been scouring the PHP and XDebug code and the PHP opcodes doc. I made a Windows build of vld and parsekit, if anybody's, interested, so I can use them next to my Windows IDE which is better for code-browsing than vim. So going slowly for now - trying to learn as much as I can. End of this week I should be able to make small but sensible changes in how Xdebug works.

PhD Improvements (Plugin System) - Status Report

--001485f64b48db1a96046b29eb8f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, This is my first GSoC Status Report and I'll tell you about the Community Bonding Period and the first week of GSoC. - Community Bonding Period During the Community Bonding Period a was reading the documentation about DocBook, understanding the code of PhD and learnig important things to the project. I also started to familiarize myself with the community. We agree in to start coding the project in May 23th and the deal was: while you don't have patches, no CVS

[benchmarks] GSoC Report

--001485f6c788971bd5046afa76ad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I'll make a short report here of what I've done and what is next. The recent days I've been improving the main benchmark script and added the PEAR package console_getargs instead of the earlier implementation. The benchmark is working but needs additional content, more functionality and "better" results. With better results, I mean to embed valgrind (cachegrind) to the benchmark and include relevant results in the output. The next thing that needs to be done is to ad

XDebug update - 24th May 2009

I didn't study PHP and XDebug as much as I would have liked the past couple of days - but I budgeted some time at the sart of the May coding period to learn PHP internals. Now that SoC has offically kicked off I'll have the project as my primary focus. So current status is studying compiler theory and PHP/Zend Engine. I'll make a study plan so that I use my time as wisely as possible and post it here. Allister

XDebug update - 19th May 2009

I've been using the time before coding officially starts to familiarize myself with compiler theory, PHP and Xdebug. So far I've setup my Linux build environment and I've been digging into compiler theory so I'll know the rudiments before attempting to dive into PHP and XDebug. I've also collected some resources on PHP internals which I'll post on th wiki. . At the end of this week I expect to be able to understand at a basic level how the PHP language and XDebug works. I'll have another update then. Allister

[gsoc] PhD Online Editor - progress @ May13

--0016e647560eaa7ea90469c2dc40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit greetings, this is ks who's the student going to work on PhD Online Editor during this summer. in this summer, i'm going to refactor the codes contributed by my mentor Yannick in order to ease the future development of the editor. the first task is to refactor the ui of the editor written in javascript. in order not to flood the cvs repository on php.net, the refactoring procedure written in the proposal has changed a little bit. instead of forking a branch to do the refact

SoC 09 - Extending XDebug code coverage instrumentation

Hi I'm Allister, a student in Mathematics and Linguistics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. I'm participating in SoC 2009 with PHP on a project to add decision and path coverage to the Xdebug debugger. I'll be mentored by Derick Rathans. I'm really psyched about this project - it's going to be a lot of fun and I'm going to learn a lot and it will be very beneficial to the PHP community My initial idea is to build an AST from the underlying PHP code and then run analysis on the tree to determine how many branches there are, then add custom opcode handlers which wil

PhD Plugin System

--001485f0ace4942fea0468ddfa08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, My name is Moacir de Oliveira, i am a undergraduate Computer Engineering student in Brazil. This is my first GSoC and i'm working in a PHP project called PhD[1]. Phd is the software that renders the DocBook based documentation of both PHP Manual and PEAR Manual. In this summer, i'm going to do a Plugin System to PhD. The idea is simplify the creation of new themes, and make PhD generic enough to be useful for non-php.netprojects. After, i'm planning to do som

GSoC Project

--0016e652de56e85712046811f50d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I just got to know that Abstract Extension API and Dependency Interface project has been selected for GSoC :). Thanks. I's there a place, (e.g. wiki) where I should update the project status and/or what I've been doing? Thanks, Varuna --0016e652de56e85712046811f50d--

New GSOC idea

Hi folks, Though its late in the process, I have added a new GSOC idea to the wiki. If there are students lurking here, please consider applying for it. http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2009#prototyping_removal_of_the_zend_api Thanks, Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com