<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.w32api.html">W32api</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="w32api.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.w32api.html">W32api</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.w32api" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> This extension is a generic extension API to <var class="filename">DLLs</var>. This was originally written to allow access to the Win32 API from PHP, although you can also access other functions exported via other DLLs. </p> <p class="para"> Currently supported types are generic PHP types (strings, booleans, floats, integers and nulls) and types you define with <span class="function"><a href="function.w32api-deftype.html" class="function">w32api_deftype()</a></span>. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> This extension has been moved to the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. </p> </p></blockquote> <div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong><p class="simpara">This extension is <em class="emphasis">EXPERIMENTAL</em>. The behaviour of this extension including the names of its functions and any other documentation surrounding this extension may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This extension should be used at your own risk.</p></div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.w32api.html">W32api</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="w32api.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.w32api.html">W32api</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>