Today I finally released spidermonkey on PECL, you can find it here: http://pecl.php.net/package/spidermonkey/
The whole thing should work fine, I’m already working on several optimisations thanks to jorendorff from Mozilla on IRC. The next thing is to provide better error report, compilation/decompilation of scripts and more default functions for a bunch of things like Iterators and the like.
The last thing I added is a bunch of function applied to streams, here is an exemple:
/* create context */
$ctx = new JSContext();
/* provide fopen/fclose functions */
$ctx->registerFunction('fopen');
$ctx->registerFunction('fclose');
/* for output */
$ctx->registerFunction('printf');
$ctx = new JSContext();
/* provide fopen/fclose functions */
$ctx->registerFunction('fopen');
$ctx->registerFunction('fclose');
/* for output */
$ctx->registerFunction('printf');
Then in Javascript:
/* open file */
fd = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r')
while (line = fd.getline()) {
printf("%s\n", line)
}
fclose(fd)
fd = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r')
while (line = fd.getline()) {
printf("%s\n", line)
}
fclose(fd)
Or
/* open file */
fd = fopen('somefile.txt', 'w')
/* here fd.SEEK_SET is the default value and is optional */
fd.seek(1024, fd.SEEK_SET)
fd.write("some text here :D")
fclose(fd)
fd = fopen('somefile.txt', 'w')
/* here fd.SEEK_SET is the default value and is optional */
fd.seek(1024, fd.SEEK_SET)
fd.write("some text here :D")
fclose(fd)
#1 by Jonathan on February 24, 2009 - 8:31 pm
Congrats !
#2 by Christophe on February 25, 2009 - 9:16 am
Is there any plan to use this server-side Javascript syntax in the browser ? Will you process on the server the script tags marked with runat=”server” ?
#3 by Christophe Robin on February 25, 2009 - 10:11 am
No there is no plan like this yet, what I’m providing is a tool allowing you to run Javascript – There are a lot of ways to parse those kind of tags so I think it’s better for the user to implement it himself using either a template system, an output filter or whatever you want. That way you’ll get a lot more control.
#4 by Christophe on February 25, 2009 - 10:20 am
Makes sense, thanks.
#5 by Oliver on February 26, 2009 - 12:31 pm
Congrats. Hopefully have an excuse to use your extension soon.
#6 by Christophe Robin on February 26, 2009 - 11:07 pm
Tomorrow I’ll release version 0.1.1 which should remove a bug on NULL PHP values and makes several optimisations coming with revision 47 on the SVN
#7 by Dima on May 8, 2009 - 10:23 am
Hi, I tried to install this extension, but I found the problem:
yums:/# pecl search spidermonkey
Retrieving data…0%MATCHED PACKAGES, CHANNEL PECL.PHP.NET:
=======================================
PACKAGE STABLE/(LATEST) LOCAL
spidermonkey 0.1.2 (beta) JavaScript engine for PHP
yums:/# pecl install spidermonkey
Failed to download pecl/spidermonkey within preferred state “stable”, latest release is version 0.1.2, stability “beta”, use “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2″ to install
Cannot initialize ‘channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey’, invalid or missing package file
Package “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey” is not valid
install failed
yums:/# pecl channel-add channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2
channel-add: Cannot open “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2″ (Cannot download nonjavascript:document.tcommentform.submit();-http URL “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2″)
yums:/#
#8 by Christophe Robin on May 8, 2009 - 11:59 am
I’d suggest you to build the latest SVN revision, just check how to do at the end of: http://www.bombstrike.org/2009/02/bringing-javascript-to-the-server/
Also, make sure you have: PHP 5.3 ( beta or RC ), spidermonkey 1.7+
#9 by martin on May 21, 2009 - 12:45 am
This looks very promising and is just what I am looking for for a project. Unfortunately getting it to run proves to be the most excruciating task. I’ve finally got the latest php snapshot running but this disables CLI and subsequently pear and pecl. Anyway, I managed to restore that functionality but when i try to install the package i run into this error:
checking whether to enable spidermonkey support… yes, shared
configure: error: jsapi.h not found. Please reinstall libjs.
ERROR: `/etc/php5/temp/spidermonkey/configure’ failed
i have no idea where to get “jslib”. Part of what package-system or package is that? What I could find is either the old mozilla “jslib” or the rather new “jslibs” project. What do I have to do to get past this point (on to the next fatal error?)
thank you very much for the great extension and I’d be too happy actually using it!
#10 by Christophe Robin on May 21, 2009 - 3:14 pm
Which distribution are you using ? Depending on the distro, there should be package named libjs or spidermonkey, if not you’ll need to get this file: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz and build/install it on your system manually.
#11 by martin on May 21, 2009 - 7:36 pm
Thanks for the reply! I am using Ubuntu 8.10. I installed spidermonkey from the repository. There also are several packages that begin with libjs but most of them appear to be just clientside js frameworks or joystick drivers.
I just tried that mozilla link but it refused to compile.
The install still fails at the same position. My js-cli (that came with spidermonkey i presume) version is JavaScript-C 1.7.0 2007-10-03.
Is there may a static binary i could use to test?
#12 by John on June 6, 2009 - 5:51 pm
Great work on this extension. Very useful to have, although we can’t use it because of the need for PHP 5.3 beta/RC. Do you know why that’s required and if there’s any way we can make this work with 5.2.x?
#13 by saaadel on August 11, 2009 - 9:41 am
Simple trick with this module code and ….
http://saaadel.com/phpinfo.php
spidermonkey 0.1.2 work at PHP Version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1
#14 by wojta on September 3, 2009 - 11:47 am
I have added this bug with PHP compiled as Apache2 module:
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16641
#15 by Ionut G. Stan on December 9, 2009 - 11:59 pm
Hi Christophe,
Great work on this extension! I have a couple of feature requests (to come) and a bug report (unfortunately):
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16967
Alas, my C skills are almost null, otherwise I’d have tried to help you on this. Maybe if you could give me at least some pointers on where to look for solving this…