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PHP is a programming language designed to be embedded into web pages.
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Shmop is an easy to use set of functions that allows PHP to read,
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write, create and delete Unix SysV-style shared memory segments.
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While developing a search deamon we needed a php based front end
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to communicate the deamon via SHM. PHP already had a shared memory
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extention (sysvshm) written by Christian Cartus <cartus@atrior.de>,
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unfortunatly this extention was designed with PHP only in mind and
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offers high level features which are extremly bothersome for basic
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SHM we had in mind. After spending a day trying to reverse engineer
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and figure out the format of sysvshm we decided that it would be
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much easier to add our own extention to php for simple SHM operations,
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we were right :)).
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