#23610 [Com]: PATH_TRANSLATED is EMPTY

ID: 23610 Comment by: phpbugs at kevin dot offwhite dot net Reported By: support at sensvirtuel dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux (redhat 8.0) PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: I just spent a good amount of time trying to figure out why PATH_TRANSLATED suddenly stopped working on me. Therefore I think you still have a couple documentation issues regarding this. 1) The first place I looked, and the first place I would suspect other people would look, to see if the variable stopped being supported at a certain revision is: http://us3.php.net/reserved.variables 2) The example code for highlight_file() should be changed to not use the non-existant PATH_TRANSLATED variable: http://us4.php.net/highlight_file Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-04-19 16:52:34] nlopess@php.net This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. This was already in the migration from PHP 4 to PHP 5 appendice. I've just copied the note to the apache function reference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-04-18 01:03:47] derick@php.net No, read the other comments. Resetting this to a Documentation problem, which it is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-04-17 21:39:46] nlopess@php.net Is there any chance to implement it? Some old scripts may rely on this feature, including REDIRECT_URL (used in phpdoc's livedocs). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-19 08:41:07] fillmore at nrcan dot gc dot ca We recently upgraded PHP from 4.3.0 to 4.3.2, and some of our scripts are now broken because they use PATH_TRANSLATED to compute the document root directory of the web site, but PATH_TRANSLATED is now empty. Is there another reliable method to find the document root? We are running the NSAPI version of PHP on iPlanet Web Server 6.0. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-14 13:39:59] moriyoshi@php.net The patch was reverted, and we're going to mark this PR as a documentation problem for the following reasons: 1. PATH_TRANSLATED itself hadn't been implemented in either Apache2 SAPI as of 4.3.2-RC1. http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/php4/sapi/apache2filter/sapi_apache2.c?r1=1.107&r2=1.108&ty=h 2. PATH_TRANSLATED is merely a supplementary piece of information on the request URL and its availability is implementation-dependent. 3. As defined in the specification Shane mentioned, PATH_TRANSLATED should not be present when PATH_INFO is not populated because PATH_TRANSLATED is a translated form of PATH_INFO. In this point, Apache1 SAPI does somewhat an evil thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/23610 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23610&edit=1