#23636 [Bgs->Csd]: overriding auto_detect_line_endings
ID: 23636
User updated by: mitra at mitra dot biz
Reported By: mitra at mitra dot biz
-Status: Bogus
+Status: Closed
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.3.1
New Comment:
How is one supposed to deduce that PHP_INI_ALL means you can change it
with "ini_set", if one doesn't know that function exists. There is
nothing on the ref.filesystem page, nor any link from PHP_INI_ALL to
something that explains what it means. (not intending to be critical,
but as someone whose done a lot of PHP programming, and was explicitly
looking for a programatic way to set this variable, I couldn't find
it).
Previous Comments:
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[2003-05-16 01:48:38] philip@php.net
The documentation already shows it as being PHP_INI_ALL so why did you
feel it implies otherwise?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php
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[2003-05-15 23:23:18] mitra at mitra dot biz
Thanks - so maybe the docs should be updated to show that
a) the settings are settable, the implication is that they can only be
set in php.ini
b) the stream_get_line alternative to fgets
Oops - since this is OpenSource documentation, maybe I should do it
...... done
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[2003-05-15 19:12:13] pollita@php.net
This option *IS* settable within your PHP scripts.
Example:
<?php
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true);
$contents = file('unknowntype.txt');
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', false);
$content2 = file('unixfile.txt');
?>
Note, with PHP 4.3 anytime Mac files are read using fgets or file
you'll need to auto_detect_line_endings since \n is otherwise assumed.
However, with PHP 5.0, stream_get_line() will allow you to specify what
line ending character to read up to.
\\ Read a line from a MAC file
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, "\r");
\\ Read a line from a UNIX file
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, "\n");
\\ Read a line from a DOS file
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, "\r\n");
\\ Read a line up to any filesystem line ending
ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true); fgets($fp);
\\ You can also make up your own line ending characters:
\\ Read up to the first instance of ":"
stream_get_line($fp, 4096, ":");
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[2003-05-15 02:21:39] mitra at mitra dot biz
I'm often running into problems with users, moving files around from a
Macintosh to Linux, it would be useful if PHP allowed modification of
auto_detect_line_endings in the php3, rather than just in php.ini. In
this way, files which handle user supplied files, can do the
auto-detection, while those reading files of known origin can leave it
as it is.
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