The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
What’s going on in Chilkat support today… 1. Error: PHP Startup: chilkat_9_5_0: Unable to initialize module $ php test.php PHP Warning: PHP Startup: chilkat_9_5_0: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with module API=20210902 PHP compiled with module API=20151012 These options need to match in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: dl(): Dynamically loaded extensions aren’t […]
Here is a bash shell script for downloading, unpacking, installing, and testing the 64-bit PHP 7.4 extension for Chilkat. 1) It assumes PHP 7.4 was installed to $HOME/phps/php74. 2) This example is downloading Chilkat version 9.5.0.82 (change the wget URL to the latest version) export PATH=$HOME/phps/php74/bin:$PATH php -v cd if [ ! -d testing ]; […]
Let’s say you have a PHP script (not PHP on a web server, but simply a .php script that you run from a command line), this is one way to start/launch a browser and automatically load/navigate to a URL. <?php // Type “start iexplore” and press “Enter” to open Internet Explorer and view its default […]
Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later protects system files and processes with a new feature named System Integrity Protection. SIP is a kernel-level feature that limits what the “root” account can do. It will prevent you from copying the Chilkat PHP shared lib (.so) to the PHP extensions directory. Also, if you try […]
AES is not exactly synonymous with “Rijndael”. AES is a (restricted) variant of Rijndael. AES has a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits, whereas Rijndael is specified with block and key sizes in any multiple of 32 bits, both with a minimum of 128 and […]
The Chilkat v9.2.0 PHP Extensions for Linux and Mac OS X were released today: Chilkat PHP Extension Downloads Chilkat PHP Extension Reference Documentation Chilkat PHP Extension Examples
This post provides PHP sample code for matching a test vector (known answer test). 3DES Settings: ECB Mode 192-bit key (i.e. 3 8-bit keys) ASCII Key Bytes: 1234567890123456ABCDEFGH ASCII Text to Encrypt: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog Pads with zero bytes Hexadecimalized Encrypted Result: 13d4d3549493d2870f93c3e0812a06de467e1f9c0bfb16c0 70ede5cabbd3ca62f217a7ae8d47f2c7bf62eb309323b58b PHP Code: <?php $cipher = […]
