Sounds like an excellent solution actually. As long as I don't get
penalized for providing an absolute path for all my included files, I am a
happy camper!
:)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: July 9, 2001 12:46 PM
To: Vlad Krupin; Zeev Suraski
Cc: Andrei Zmievski; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Possible feature for current version of PHP or
PHP 4.1/5.0.
At 12:03 PM 7/9/2001 -0700, Vlad Krupin wrote:
>Is it better to break things once or twice? Ok, not completely break, but
>now I have some code working with PHP4, later I will have some code that
>will work with PHP4.1, and finally I will re-write it to work with the
>latest-and-best PHP5. It is more like saying "Here is my script, you can
>run it with this version of PHP *only*, if you want to run it with another
>one, I have another version of the script for you".
>
>On a sidenote, could we just create a different include (e.g.
>include_relative, like there is include_once) that will incorporate the
>desired functionality, and not touch include() at all? Or am I suggestiong
>yet another bloat? Or am I missing the point here? Or did we all agree
>that the current include() operation is so buggy that it warrants a change
>breaking compatibility and soon?
>
>I do not think that going to 5.0 warrants letting the hell break loose and
>break everything, I would still like to be able to run at least some of my
>php4 scripts once php5 comes out, and I have lots of very elaborate
>solutions to work around the current problems with include(). Such a
>change will not break my code, but I can easily see what code that *will*
>break, and I think there will be a lot of it.
What do you think about the solution I suggested? If the file can't be
found to then look in the current scripts directory. It solves the problems
and doesn't break BC.
Andi
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