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

Andi, I definitely do like your approachl. I do not like that different versions of PHP will behave differently. That's what I was talking about. And it is a situation similar to what Brian described that prompted me to write to the list and see if we can come up with one solution which will stay, whether in version 4.1, or 5, or 5.5. I know that I have myriads of includes with a pretty extensive directory structure, and some scripts are having the same names. I have run into problems including the wrong file by mistake. I do not want to make that mistake easier to make. That's why I asked if it makes sense to leave include() as it is, and create another function/construct that will behave as described, and asked if that would be too much of a bloat. I can not judge that myself, for I do not know enough. If it is, discard that idea, but could we please implement something that will not change between verision 4.1 and 5 and hopefully later? Sorry, couldn't reply earlier - I was following up on the heated discussions here... Vlad Brian Moon wrote:

It is not so much BC. It is more like unexpected new behavior. As of now, a bad programmer might have this: /www/site.com/include/file.php /www/site.com/include/config.php /www/site.com/index.php /www/site.com/config.php if index.php includes include/file.php which includes "config.php", the config in the main dir gets included. Now, in the future, if the main config.php is not there, the one in the include file gets included. Now, granted, this may not be the best case, but it would cause some confusion if someone was not well aware of this change. I am still +1, but think it should be at least a 4.1 thing. Brian Moon ------------------------------------------ dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews & dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com> To: "Brian Moon" <brianm@dealnews.com>; "Vlad Krupin" <vlad@php.net>; "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com> Cc: "Andrei Zmievski" <andrei@ispi.net>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Possible feature for current version of PHP or PHP 4.1/5.0.

At 03:43 PM 7/9/2001 -0500, Brian Moon wrote:

That is not completely true. If there is a file in the included scripts

dir

that has the same name as one in the including scripts dir, that would

cause

some unexpected problems.

Well as I would only resort to looking according to the current file if

all

other things fail (cwd and include_path) I can't see how it would break

BC.

I still like the idea.

Thanks :) Andi