PHP

Last weekend I wrote a small and simple shell in PHP in about 8 hours. It have some builtin commands, a simple API to add more commands written in PHP, supports ENV vars, have eval (for PHP code) and a "fancy" prompt.

You are probably sitting there thinking "What the hell? Who needs a shell written in PHP?"
The answer is simple: No one! It's just a small experiment I wanted to try, that I have been thinking about for some time.

Here's a patch that adds posix_mknod (man 2 mknod) to the POSIX extension. Useful if you're going for a "do everything with PHP"-approach (see later entry).

No feature requests exists for it afaik.

Here is the patch.

So now I've been experimenting with PHP scripting module for Irssi for some time and using it to protect some channels from lamers. Found some problems though..

It seems like it doesn't free allocated objects after a signal handler have been called and the execution is done, which is why I get over a million memleaks now and then when I reload the module. Too bad Wez doesn't have time to hack on it right now...

Since I lost all data in /home I had to start writing new scripts for Irssi. And I can, without lying, say that I hate Perl. So the obvious thing to do was to try to get php-irssi up and running, which was easy.

I forgot to write about this two or was it three days ago..
I have written a loginfo script for CVS in PHP which should work with both CVS 1.11.x and 1.12.x, I haven't really tried it since I added 1.12.x support in it. If there are any problems, they should be pretty easy to fix.