Req #76702 [NEW]: pathinfo's $options should accept a bitmask value

From: jerry at jmweb dot net Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Filesystem function related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:pathinfo's $options should accept a bitmask value Description: ------------ Obtaining a file's path + filename is quite cumbersome using pathinfo() since the $options argument accept one of a discrete set of values. It would be nice if we could supply a bitmask instead. A real-world case is caching output from .php pages. The web server routes /path/, to /path/index.php and it saves it's own output to /path/index.html. The next request is then served the contents of index.html directly by the web server. I am not sure how difficult it would be to implement, but I see it useful. Test script: --------------- $path = '/dir/file.ext'; $newExt = '.ext2'; $newPath = pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_DIRNAME ) . '/' . pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_FILENAME ) . $newExt; // /dir/file.ext2 // if pathinfo could accept a bitmask $newPathBitmask = pathinfo( $path, PATHINFO_DIRNAME | PATHINFO_FILENAME ) . $newExt; // /dir/file.ext2 -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76702&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76702&r=mysqlcfg