Re: Possible feature for current version of PHP or PHP 4.1/5.0.

On Mon, 09 Jul 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Yeah, this has been requested several times. > I think that changing the cwd to the directory of an included file makes > good sense. It is, indeed, downwards incompatible and may break existing > applications. We have 4 options: > > 1. Do nothing > 2. Make include() and friends change directory to the directory of the > file they include. This makes the most sense, but may break existing apps. > 3. #2, only make it optional > 4. Add the directory of the included file to the include_path when the > included file is being executed. It can get a bit nasty with nested > includes, even though I think it should work. It's also a bit tricky to > implement, as the engine doesn't know about include_path (at least right now). > > I'm leaning towards #3, even though I don't like the > yet-another-runtime-option. It may be justified if we say we're phasing > out the old functionality in PHP 5.0. How about #3 for 4.1 and #2 for 5.0? -Andrei * If it's never finished, you can't prove it doesn't work. *