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