PHP extension for gnokii

[Daniele Forsi]

I've written a sort of proof of concept for a PHP extension allowing the 
use of libgnokii (I wrote only the "identify" function).

It would be interesting to study the integration Apache-PHP with 
persistent data, this way you need to open communication with the phone 
only once and you reuse it for the following "pages" (think of xgnokii 
rewritten as dynamic web pages), this is what can be done with mysql but 
I never used it that way.

Implementing functions that read something from the phone is only a 
matter of converting the values into PHP data types, while functions 
that write something seem to require a duplicate of the error checking 
code alreadly written for the same functions in gnokii, which is no ideal.

This is what this extension can output so far:

$ php -r 'dl("gnokii.so"); print_r( gnokii_identify() );'
Array
(
    [IMEI] => xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    [Manufacturer] => Nokia
    [Model] => 3210
    [Product name] => NSE-8
    [Revision] => SW 06.00, HW 5591
)
Impressive, huh? :-)

Feedback is welcome, for example I think that [Product name] is better 
than [ProductName]

You can download the very short source code of this extension at
http://www.forsi.it/node/24 but beware that is pre-alpha stuff :-)
and you need PHP sources to compile this.

--
Daniele