After about two years I finally have access to my advogato account again. (Thanks Raph!) I created it back in 1999 or 2000 when I was living in California. Then I forgot my password at some point and well.. here I am.
I spent some time tracking down folks I know on advogato and certifying them as the lunatics they are.
I started some work on my NetInfo extension for PHP a few weeks ago. It took a while to track down the proper API to use because Mac OS X's documentation SUCKS! Thank goodness for Darwin. I got a pointer to check out the /usr/include/netinfo stuff and I stuck with that API. Someone had previously pointed me to the directory services API in OSX, which is a diseased beast that needs to be incinerated and never seen by anyone again.
So here's the API I've come up with for this NetInfo extension:
- ni_open(domain [, user, pw [, host [, timeout]]])
- *ni_close()
- ni_resync(domain [, tries])
- ni_statistics(domain)
- ni_domainname(domain)
- ni_rparent(domain)
- ni_dir_create(conn, dir)
- ni_dir_destroy(conn, dir)
- *ni_dir_rename(conn, dir, new)
- ni_dir_list(conn, dir)
- ni_dir_properties(conn, dir)
- ni_prop_rename(conn, dir, prop, new)
- ni_prop_create(conn, dir, prop, value)
- ni_prop_destroy(conn, dir, prop)
- ni_prop_append(conn, dir, prop, value)
- ni_prop_merge(conn, dir, prop, value)
- ni_prop_values(conn, dir, prop)
- ni_value_insert(conn, dir, prop, value, index)
- ni_value_destroy(conn, dir, prop, value)
- *ni_value_append(conn, dir, prop, value)
- *ni_find_dirs_with_prop(conn, prop) -- find directories that have a property
- *ni_find_dirs_with_prop_value(conn, prop, value)
* = non-existant in netinfo C API, something i need to create
Notes:
functions will not be required to have conn passed to them
once a connection has been initiated with ni_open()
successfully once. it will be optional.
This seems like it will be a good project for me to do to get back into the habits of writing C code. I found an awesome book at B&N called "Pointers on C". It's the best damn programming book I've ever read, not that I've finished it yet... So, good luck to me on getting this done. Perhaps I can get it done within a month and maybe get it included in PHP 4.3 since that's supposed to be the first official OSX-supported release.