Re: Experience/Function Aliases (Was:Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP File Upload Security Hole - Still No Fix?

> One good idea I saw (that you might want to submit as a feature request) > is a way to make a function 'alias' instance for the life of a script. That way, > you could call your standard header at the beginning of a script, and > use quick coding for the rest of the script. You can currently do this > by writing your own functions, but it seems like this could come in > handy for _everyone_, regardless of the functions they used most > frequently (with less coding than a function). It wouldn't expand the > neccesary documentation load, could be rolled into any forward version, > etc, and might(?) fit quite well into the pre-parsing already done by the > Zend code. > > Such as: > myaliases.inc---- > /* may need to put some special "flag" char in front > * so they are picked up easily, such as ~, as in "~htment()" > */ > alias (htmlentities, htment) > alias (get_html_translation_table, ghtt) > alias (quoted_printable_decode, qpd) :) Ah, the feature already (sort-of) exists: $htmlent = 'htmlentities'; print $htmlent ('" should be converted to " & should be converted to &'); - Zak