Req #24087 [Opn->Csd]: Make temporary_directory available in userland

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24087&edit=1 ID: 24087 Updated by: johannes@php.net Reported by: philip at cornado dot com Summary: Make temporary_directory available in userland -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues Operating System: all PHP Version: 5CVS-2003-06-08 (dev) -Assigned To: +Assigned To: johannes Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: sys_get_temp_dir() was introduced in 5.2.1 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-19 09:54:25] philip@php.net My initial reason is upload_tmp_dir does not provide a value unless it's explicitly set, I need this information before sending a file (for a nice debugging tool that will help the masses). On the contrary, session.tmp_path does provide its value regardless of it being explicitly set or not so that's a weird inconsistency among directive behavior. Anyway, knowing TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY will solve my problem although 'fixing' upload_tmp_dir will also solve it. Either way, get_temporary_directory() will need to be called before a file is uploaded, I don't think it is currently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-09 02:49:54] derick@php.net I don't really see the use of this. Why would this be useful? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-08 22:33:05] philip at cornado dot com How about making the result from get_temporary_directory() available in user land, most likely as a constant named TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY This would be useful in that we'd know where this is, in both Windows and *nix. The code that defines the internal variable temporary_directory is here: http://lxr.php.net/source/php4/main/php_open_temporary_file.c#164 I'm not a devel guy, but the following hack seems mildly appropriate: REGISTER_STRING_CONSTANT("TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY", get_temporary_directory(), strlen(get_temporary_directory()), 0); Not sure where to put it though, or if it's fully correct (doubtful), but please consider this idea as it would be nice. One *possible* concern is security but I think it's worth it, *maybe* disable this option in safe_mode. It's not like the TEMP directory is a big secret, nor is viewing various related directives like session.save_path and upload_tmp_dir. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24087&edit=1