PHP-SDL

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.

Installation

Requirements

• C compiler
• Automake tools
• PHP devel
• libSDL2 devel libraries and headers
• UN*X OS (eg Linux, Macos)

Via PECL

pecl install sdl-devel

Then add

extension=sdl.so

to your php.ini file.

Documentation

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.

Examples

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);

And is also available in object oriented style:

    $window = new SDL_Window( "Foo window", 100, 50, 350, 300, SDL_Window::SHOWN|SDL_Window::RESIZABLE);
    $window->SetTitle("Some new title");
    unset($window); // will destroy the window

Complete examples can be found in the examples folder.

Projects using the extension

• CubeCraft
• Conway's game of life
• PhpOkoban
• Inphpinity
• PhPresent

Building

To compile your new extension, you will have to execute the following steps:

$ phpize
$ ./configure [--enable--sdl] 
$ make
$ make test
$ [sudo] make install

Support and feature requests

Please submit anything that needs our attention to the issues section on Github. We are commited to attend any request in a short timespan if it's a sensible matter.