Andi, I definitely do like your approachl. I do not like that different
versions of PHP will behave differently. That's what I was talking
about. And it is a situation similar to what Brian described that
prompted me to write to the list and see if we can come up with one
solution which will stay, whether in version 4.1, or 5, or 5.5.
I know that I have myriads of includes with a pretty extensive directory
structure, and some scripts are having the same names. I have run into
problems including the wrong file by mistake. I do not want to make that
mistake easier to make. That's why I asked if it makes sense to leave
include() as it is, and create another function/construct that will
behave as described, and asked if that would be too much of a bloat. I
can not judge that myself, for I do not know enough. If it is, discard
that idea, but could we please implement something that will not change
between verision 4.1 and 5 and hopefully later?
Sorry, couldn't reply earlier - I was following up on the heated
discussions here...
Vlad
Brian Moon wrote:
>It is not so much BC. It is more like unexpected new behavior.
>
>As of now, a bad programmer might have this:
>
>/www/site.com/include/file.php
>/www/site.com/include/config.php
>
>/www/site.com/index.php
>/www/site.com/config.php
>
>if index.php includes include/file.php which includes "config.php", the
>config in the main dir gets included.
>
>Now, in the future, if the main config.php is not there, the one in the
>include file gets included. Now, granted, this may not be the best case,
>but it would cause some confusion if someone was not well aware of this
>change.
>
>I am still +1, but think it should be at least a 4.1 thing.
>
>Brian Moon
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andi Gutmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Brian Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vlad Krupin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Zeev
>Suraski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "Andrei Zmievski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Possible feature for current version of PHP or PHP
>4.1/5.0.
>
>
>>At 03:43 PM 7/9/2001 -0500, Brian Moon wrote:
>>
>>>That is not completely true. If there is a file in the included scripts
>>>
>dir
>
>>>that has the same name as one in the including scripts dir, that would
>>>
>cause
>
>>>some unexpected problems.
>>>
>>Well as I would only resort to looking according to the current file if
>>
>all
>
>>other things fail (cwd and include_path) I can't see how it would break
>>
>BC.
>
>>
>>>I still like the idea.
>>>
>>Thanks :)
>>
>>Andi
>>
>>
>>
>
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