SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) bindings for the PHP language. The extension allows you to create multimedia desktop applications with windows, input handling, events, and more.
- C compiler
- Automake tools
- PHP8.1 devel
- libSDL2 devel libraries and headers
- UN*X OS (eg Linux, Macos)
pecl install sdl-betaThen add
extension=sdl.so
to your php.ini file.
If you have no idea about your ini file position you can run
php -i | grep iniand see the list of you ini files.
The SDL extension mimics in almost every single aspect to the official C library, so until we write our own documentation, refer to the C counterpart.
Standard SDL2 API is available in procedural style:
$window = SDL_CreateWindow( "Foo window", 500, 50, 350, 300, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN+SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);
SDL_SetWindowTitle($window, "Some new title");
SDL_DestroyWindow($window);Complete examples can be found in the examples folder.
To compile your new extension, you will have to execute the following steps:
phpize
./configure [--with--sdl]
make
make test
sudo make install