Re: the dl() issue

I thought we weren't wasting any more time with this? :) At 10:54 PM 3/12/2002, Shane Caraveo wrote:

I am talking about dl. 'should' being the keyword. I see no reason at all that dl should unload the module after the request, and the fact that it does seems to be the primary reason there are problems and (probably) its getting depricated.

It's actually not the primary reason at all. Either I completely don't understand you, or you simply don't understand dl(), or you don't mind violating one of the basic rules of PHP. If it's option #1, please try to explain again what you mean... About option #2 - dl() right now, affects the current process (or thread) only. If you're talking about something which will change PHP process-wide, then you are not talking about dl(), but about something else. About option #3 - if you think dl() should go on working according to its spec, only not clean up after itself (i.e., load into the current process/thread only, but stay there at the end of the request), then you're violating one of the basic concepts of PHP - clean up *everything* after a request, and have all of the processes/threads in the pool 'equal'. If you're talking about adding a function that will essentially do what extension= does in php.ini, only at runtime (i.e., load the module process-wide, and have it stay there), then you're still violating a basic rule in PHP (pages will behave differently according to whether or not a page with the loading statement has been accessed). In all of what you said, I haven't heard any explanation to why you've grown to hate php.ini, and frankly, I think that php.ini is more than sufficient. With Stas's idea of an auto-load directory, even the complaints of the text-editor-challenged users will be answered. In a retaliatory preemptive attempt to end this thread, I also took the liberty to snip away the rest of your post and end it here, except for one comment:

First, Perl is used twice as much as PHP under Apache on top web sites (*).

I'll take the liberty to consider this statement quite baseless, given the information I've seen. Zeev