Re: [PHP-DEV] Extending internal classes like mysqli

2004-05-25 Thread George Schlossnagle
On May 25, 2004, at 8:47 PM, Bert Slagter wrote: The last few days I've been working with mysqli, and every hour I work with it, my worry grows. It's far from finished: no good documentation in the ext dir, below average online documentation, partly implemented object orientation (no destructor,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Extending internal classes like mysqli

2004-05-25 Thread Bert Slagter
The last few days I've been working with mysqli, and every hour I work with it, my worry grows. It's far from finished: no good documentation in the ext dir, below average online documentation, partly implemented object orientation (no destructor, no extensions allowed, etc). Is there any chanc

Re: [PHP-DEV] Extending internal classes like mysqli

2004-05-21 Thread Bert Slagter
Hi Marcus, Thanks for your clear answer :). What are the future plans concerning this issue? Will I be able to just extend this class as I want? For which version is that planned? The answers to these questions heavily influence design choices I have to make now. Oh, and I'm curious why the art

Re: [PHP-DEV] Extending internal classes like mysqli

2004-05-21 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Bert, some of the internal classas cannot be extended and unfortunatley they are not marked as 'final' right now. For you that means you need to extend it by a proxy class that reimplements the original class protocol and uses the original class as a property. Friday, May 21, 2004, 2:52:08