[geos-devel] PHP bindings anyone ?

Sean Gillies sean.gillies at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 03:53:00 EDT 2010


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Robert Coup
<robert.coup at koordinates.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM, strk <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm plaing with drupal recently and be wondering
>> if the SWIG binding for GEOS are still in use by
>> anyone or not.
>>
>> In particular, I think Shapely and GeoDjango
>> are using a direct interface rather than swig, right ?
>
>
> Yep, they both access the C library using the Python ctypes module. AFAIK
> they just wanted to expose clean "pythonic" interfaces rather than the
> hybrid stuff SWIG produces...

>From time to time I hear from some one who is using the SWIG bindings for Ruby.

Are there any libffi (used by ctypes) intefaces for PHP? If so, I'd
recommend giving that a try.

Cheers,

-- 
Sean


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