Req #41810 [Com]: Unable to catch Parse Errors

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41810&edit=1 ID: 41810 Comment by: james dot dobb at gmail dot com Reported by: d dot albano at gmail dot com Summary: Unable to catch Parse Errors Status: Not a bug Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree that this, perhaps not a bug but a missing feature needs to be addressed, There should be a secure way of including scripts from another script and be able to continue the calling script if an error occurs, the lack of functionality here is causing me a major headache..... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-02 13:41:24] pajoye@php.net It is not, please double read the manual about require/include_once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-02 12:34:32] sneak at datavibe dot net This classification is not bogus at all. Consider the following: == main.php == <?php $filename = sprintf("%s.php", 'myfile' ); include_once($filename); ?> == myfile.php == <?php syntax errors here !@#$%^&*()_ ?> The parsing of myfile.php must necessarily happen at main.php's RUNTIME, because the filename is not available until sprintf() is called. This is a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-03 16:36:51] tony2001@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-07-03 16:29:58] d dot albano at gmail dot com Looking to the code looks simply to do the modification, naturally, as you said, the problem is testing. However i founded an eval behaviour to support my feature request: if there is a parse error execution continues Can be that this is a bug or an unwanted behaviour, however nothing start to work strange after that a parse error was outputted. So, if all works with eval why it shouldn't work correctly with normal parse errors? Here there is some example code: <?php echo "BEGIN"; eval('echo "{$SYNTAX-ERROR"'); echo "END"; ?> It output BEGIN Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '-', expecting '}' in C:\web\htdocs\test.php(5) : eval()'d code on line 1 END ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-26 13:07:22] d dot albano at gmail dot com When i said: > If it remains in a unstable state there is serious problem somewhere i answered to your phrase: > After parse error the parser/compiler and whole engine may be in unstable state If parsing a file may put the entire engine in an unstable state there is a problem: never heard that a parser can do this The problem can be that the engine is written to shutdown after a parser error and this is can cause troubles i think, but the problem is that i'm not zend/php developer :) However i don't think that is necessary to rewrite the engine from the scracth, a feature like this, at logic level, must follow rules followed by other errors This afternoon i'll take a look to the parser and to the zend engine to understand how errors are passed Thanks a lot Bye ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41810 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41810&edit=1