On 04/04/2013 05:53 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
Joe Watkins <krak...@php.net> wrote:
Something that hasn't been mentioned, installation of software like
wordpress or whatever, might be able to offer advice to the end user
based on the configuration defaults, regardless of ini settings.
Le me repeat what I said in this thread using other words:
No, it can't. In a typical case (PHP from distribution with "all" extensions
shared) this has *no* relevance regarding the running system. The extensions loaded might
be built completely different from what's said there.
Provide the information needed by constants or function calls from an extenson
or whatever makes sense, don't advocate to do the wrong thing.
johannes
Many extensions do not provide constants or functions to detect the way
they are configured, this may or may not expose those options, which is
better than not being able to expose those options by any reasonable means.
More importantly, it does not only contain information about extensions,
or which extensions are loaded and how ( I am aware of the problems of
using this kind of information as authoritative, I still say something
is better than nothing, see every 404 page in all modern browsers, why
not provide suggestions, even if they are wrong ).
Path information I figure could be useful while setting up software, so
could many other configure time options, for example if more than one
SAPI was built at configure time, you might advise the use of the most
suitable SAPI for your software, you might generate an ini file and tell
the user where to put it (scandir), you might have the abnormal path to
php-config or other things distributed with php and installed in a
non-standard path (/opt/php-nts in example output).
There's a bunch of useful stuff in the configure command ... not just
extensions loaded ...
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