I'm not a php dev but can this be done ?

Yes, but you can use any language, including C, as preprocessor for any language. Because all languages has a basic output, so they can generate the other language, which is just simple text.

If it is useful and your preprocessor will be handy, I don't think so. Probably a text template engine is the better way to go.

Would be useful if you are generating client libraries from wsdls or something like that.

Zephir lang may be in your interest.

But whyy

Mora like a template engine than an preprocessor. In some situations this feature is very useful and one I like the most

My God.. 😰 I'll be sick! The benefits of using C is it's speed! The exact contrary of PHP! so just why!??!

@omomthings you wouldn't use PHP in place for a compiled C program. The idea here is to use PHP to generate the text files containing C syntax, instead of manually typing the C code yourself. After this "preprocessing" you would compile the code into a fast binary executable.

One usecase could be to do a big unrolled loop with a PHP script instead of typing the same statement a gazillion times yourself.

Did anyone try accessing GTK libraries?

@siljamicke ohhh sorry my bad, I didn't pay attention at first! Yeah you're right..