Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c incomplete_class.c php_incomplete_class.h var.c /ext/wddx wddx.c

At 17:49 06/08/2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:

[Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>] By the way, if it's really important, we can look into supporting it. The way it was before - it worked in most cases (assuming you never tried to use a class before you dl() the corresponding extension), but could result in crashes in other cases. I don't think it's very important, though. dl() should most probably be deprecated from the language, as it's not supported in thread safe mode, it's slow and insecure. It also creates a host of interesting bugs/buglets that are difficult to hunt and fix. Other than that - it's great :) Uhm, are you suggesting we take away the possibility of loading extensions at run-time?

Depending on which run-time you mean, yes. I don't think it should be possible to load extensions from within a PHP script. Note that dl() never really behaved properly. It was always broken to one degree or another. Also, it'll be completely unavailable in the thread safe version of PHP, so we might as well deprecate it completely. Loading extensions in the php.ini file is still very much possible. Zeev