Re: argv/argc

Well as Rasmus mentioned a few mails ago, it's a good idea to distribute an additional php.ini with the default distribution which we would recommend. It would keep a cleaner address space and include the highest performance ini settings. Andi At 04:36 PM 1/29/00 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 rasmus@php.net wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote:

It would in this specific case, but I think that if people expect argv/argc, they expect them to exist and be empty in case of an empty query. Any reason not to selectively turn argv/argc off by an INI directive?

What about cgi version where argv/argc are supposed to come from the command line arguments?

It's never been like that. $argc/$argv always reflected the contents of the QUERY_STRING.

I am not sure I understand that statement. Obviously $argc and $argv are set based on the command line args in the cgi version. Using PHP 3, look: #!./php -q <?

        echo $argv[1];

?> $ ./t abc abc Works the same for PHP 4, so what do you mean it *always* reflects the contents of the QUERY_STRING? I have no QUERY_STRING env variable set in this case. I didn't dig deep enough - the CGI SAPI module 'fools' SAPI to think that the command line arguments are actually the query string. So you would indeed get this behavior. As for why we need the http://www.php.net/?blah URL. It is very handy to be able to access "blah" directly via $argv[0]. Just having it set in the symbol table to an empty value and needing to look through $GLOBALS or $HTTP_GET_VARS is a hassle. This has worked since PHP 2, so changing this default is going to break some sites, including one of mine. I don't mind an ini option to turn it off to increase performance, but we can't just drop this feature. I didn't want to change the default and certainly not drop the feature. I just wasn't sure why it was commonly necessary (and I still think that most scripts don't use it). Basically what I'm saying is that if we were designing version 1.0 of PHP, this would have probably not been in by default. But since we're up to 4.0, we can only add a user selectable option, which isn't that bad. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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