Req #47926 [Opn]: It would be nice if there were a temporary conditions control structure

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47926&edit=1 ID: 47926 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: jeremy dot tharp at gmail dot com Summary: It would be nice if there were a temporary conditions control structure Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues Operating System: Redhat Linux PHP Version: 5.2.9 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: A "bit" late, but anyway: as of PHP 5.3 you could make use of a closure, and write conversion_space as a function function conversion_space($func) { convert_user(); $func(); convert_user_back(); } which can be called like so: conversion_space(function () { // some code }); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-04-08 18:53:37] jeremy dot tharp at gmail dot com Description: ------------ This isn't really a bug, but I think it would be great to have a control structure that has temporary execution parameters. Consider it an execution space similar to a while or switch, etc. The reason I could use it in this particular instance is for security reasons. For certain code, I need to elevate a logged in user's "status" to temporarily give them super user permissions. Basically I temporarily convert the user, run the code, then convert them back. convert_user(); execute_code_here(); convert_user_back(); This works great, of course, but if I have to do this 300 times, there is a decent chance that I would forget to convert_user_back();, causing a security hole (the user would then be logged in as a super user). It would be great if I could do something like execspace conversion_space ($params[]) { function start () { convert_user(); } function stop () { convert_user_back(); } } Then in my actual code, I would do: conversion_space { // start function executes here // execute some code } // stop function executes here This way, it is grammatically impossible to implement the structure without closing it. I think this would be a powerful control structure for the language. Perhaps there is an equally useful solution that I am unaware of, but if not, I think implementing it is worth consideration (and if there is, I would certainly appreciate the enlightenment!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47926&edit=1