Re: Fwd: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /main fopen-wrappers.cfopen-wrappers.h

Andi Gutmans wrote: > As I mention in my commit message I want to start cleaning up this mess. > > - How about moving URL stuff out of this file? regarding mess and URL stuff: i already gave it a try once but didn't continue after the first step was done and registration of additional url types was possible the next thing i'd like to do is to move the http: and ftp: wrappers out to ext/standard and register them from there this would only be a cosmetic change in the first place and the code would still be ugly, only that it would be distributed over several files but it would devide the url wrapper mechanism from it's implementations and i strongly belive that while the interface should stay in main the implementations for different url types belong into the ext tree ... as a final step (in a distant future?) i'd like to see even further wrapping that does not only wrap fopen, but also fread, fwrite and fclose right now wrapping anything that does not return a FILE* or a socket is, well, not easy not every system has a current glibc that provides FILE* generalization via the fopencookie(...) mechanism, tricks using pipe()s and socketpairs() only work up to a certain size limit and temporary files are performance killers what i dream of is a chance to have statements like include "mysql:..."; or fopen "zip:archive.zip:some/file/in/archive"; without doing the dirty tricks described above (hope this wasn't to confusing) -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 fax:-99