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In a language such as C, a "global" variable is a variable that can be accessed from any function without any extra declaration. These traditional globals have a few drawbacks:
A PHP extension's globals are more properly called the "extension state", since most modules must remember what they're doing between function calls. The "counter" extension is a perfect example of this need: The basic interface calls for a counter with a persistent value. A programmer new to Zend and PHP might do something like this in counter.c to store that value:
Example #1 The wrong way to store the basic counter interface's value
static long basic_counter_value;PHP_FUNCTION(counter_get) { RETURN_LONG(basic_counter_value); }
On the surface this appears a viable solution, and indeed in a simple test it would function correctly. However, there are a number of situations in which more than one copy of PHP is running in the same thread, which means more than one instance of the counter module. Suddenly these multiple threads are sharing the same counter value, which is clearly undesirable. Another problem shows itself when considering that another extension might someday happen to have a global with the same name, and due to the rules of C scoping, this has the potential to cause a compile failure, or worse, a runtime error. Something more elaborate is needed, and so exists Zend's support for thread-safe per-module globals.
Whether a module uses only a single global or dozens, they must be defined in a structure, and that structure must be declared. There are some macros that assist with doing so in a way that avoids name conflicts between modules: ZEND_BEGIN_MODULE_GLOBALS() , ZEND_END_MODULE_GLOBALS() , and ZEND_DECLARE_MODULE_GLOBALS() . All three take as a parameter the short name of the module, which in the case of the counter module is simply "counter". Here is the global structure declaration from php_counter.h:
Example #2 The counter module's globals
ZEND_BEGIN_MODULE_GLOBALS(counter) long basic_counter_value; ZEND_END_MODULE_GLOBALS(counter)
And this is the declaration from counter.c:
Example #3 The counter module's global structure declaration
ZEND_DECLARE_MODULE_GLOBALS(counter)
As discussed above, per-module globals are declared inside a C structure whose name is obscured by Zend macros. As a result, the ideal way to access members of this structure is by the use of further macros. Accordingly, most if not all extensions which have globals have a declaration like this somewhere in their header file:
Example #4 Accessor macros for per-module globals
#ifdef ZTS #define COUNTER_G(v) TSRMG(counter_globals_id, zend_counter_globals *, v) #else #define COUNTER_G(v) (counter_globals.v) #endif
Note: This could have been generalized into a macro of its own by the Zend API, but as of PHP 5.3 (and PHP 6 at the time of this writing), that hasn't happened. The global accessor construct is written into the header by ext_skel and thus is generally left alone by extension writers, unless they wish to change the name of the accessor macro.
Note:
COUNTER_G
was the name given to the macro by ext_skel, but it's not necessary for it to have that name and could just as easily be called FOO instead.
Any code in the counter extension that accesses a global must thus wrap it
in the macro COUNTER_G
.
Any function which accesses globals must either be declared by Zend macros,
have TSRMLS_DC
as its last argument, or call the macro
TSRMLS_FETCH
before accessing the globals. See
the TSRM documentation for
more information.
So with all of that in mind, here is our new version of the counter_get() :
Example #5 The right way to store the basic counter interface's value
ZEND_BEGIN_MODULE_GLOBALS(counter) long basic_counter_value; ZEND_END_MODULE_GLOBALS(counter)#ifdef ZTS #define COUNTER_G(v) TSRMG(counter_globals_id, zend_counter_globals *, v) #else #define COUNTER_G(v) (counter_globals.v) #endif ZEND_DECLARE_MODULE_GLOBALS(counter)PHP_FUNCTION(counter_get) { RETURN_LONG(COUNTER_G(basic_counter_value)); }
This is a correct implementation. It is not, however, a complete one. The section Life cycle of an extension explains why.