Re: Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5192 Updated: opendir fails in 4.0.0 where 3.0.12 worked

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:00:59PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > W>> $chk="$comdir"."/"."$id"; > W>> if(is_dir("$chk")) { > W>> opendir("$chk"); > W>> $fil=readdir(); > > Please read the manual. Opendir retrns handle. You should use it with > readdir. My point then is this: The function has different requirements that php3 did. People who've been using php since early '94, as I have, do not go back through our scripts and re-read each manual entry for every function we call in our working codebase. It may well be that the spec for readdir() changed in the manual before php4 - I just don't know - but the important thing is the functionality remained compatible with scripts written to prior iterations of the specs until it was broken in php4 - and you really should list this as an incompatibility in php4, that folks who've used opendir() may need to modify it, or php4 will break. My use of readdir() is probably based on the php2 manual - but again my point is php3 didn't break it in actual use, php4 did: it's a real difference in php4. Please put this warning on the php Website. Even better: please fix the function in the next iteration so that readdir() will default to working as before when a handle is not specified. After all, it would appear to be an explicit goal of the project to maximize backwards compatibility, right? Have other functions have been changed in ways that will break things, if people haven't carefully studied prior changes in the specs that were not enforced in the code up until now? Thanks for your attention to this. \/\/ I-I I T Blauvelt whit@transpect.com