#24087 [Fbk->Opn]: Make temporary_directory available in userland
ID: 24087
Updated by: philip@php.net
Reported By: philip at cornado dot com
-Status: Feedback
+Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: all
PHP Version: 5CVS-2003-06-08 (dev)
New Comment:
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.
Previous Comments:
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[2003-06-09 02:49:54] derick@php.net
I don't really see the use of this. Why would this be useful?
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[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.
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