Re: PHP equivalent to Perl $0

On Wed, January 31, 2007 5:59 pm, Richard Luckhurst wrote: > In Perl there is the predefined $0 which contains the name of the file > containing the Perl script being executed. Is there an equivalent in > PHP? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] > I am working on converting a Listener script from Perl to PHP and at > one point > when the script forks it has a line > > $0 = "Listener is accepting connections on Port $port"; > > When this Perl script is running and I do a ps I see a process ID with > the > program being > > Listener is accepting connections on Port $port > > instead of the actual name of the Perl script. > > Is such a thing possible in PHP? If so how? I have been Google > searching for a > while and can not see one way or the other if it is possible. I have no idea if you can cram some whack value into that and then ps would show that instead of the path... I doubt it. And, frankly, why would you want to do that? It only sows confusion in ps output. :-) Unless the whole rest of the application is relying on this sugar candy feature (scary idea) I'd say just skip that line. If PHP does have such a feature, it would probably be grouped with the functions here: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php I'm not seeing anything there. You might be able to hack something with http://php.net/exec and the http://php.net/getmypid to do whatever it is that Perl does when you assign a value to $0 (shudder). -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?