file_exists and array_merge_clobber

Hi, We have a new intern who got right to work to improve file_exists() to also be able to check the include_path similar to how fopen() can. We have a patch here. Due to some issues on the CVS version of ext/standard/filestat.c in HEAD we commented out some code in the file in order to be able to compile. This is not really needed for our patch of course. You can find the patch here: http://www.backendmedia.com/php_patches/file_exists.patch Since neither my intern nor I have previous experience in modifying the PHP source we would obviously appreciate any hints. We were especially unsure how much we need to check the parameter values ourselves. We also plan to create a new array function based on a user suggestion in the user comments of array_merge_recursive(). Here is an implementation in PHP (I modified it a bit this morning without testing it in much detail, so hopefully it works as I have planned it). Essentially I need this in a bunch of PEAR classes to be able to handle multidimensional option arrays that need to overwrite a default array. function array_merge_clobber($a1, $a2) { if (!is_array($a1) || !is_array($a2)) { return false; } foreach($a2 as $key => $val) { if (is_array($val) && isset($a1[$key]) && is_array($a1[$key]) ) { $a1[$key] = array_merge_clobber($a1[$key], $val); } else { $a1[$key] = $val; } } return $a1; } Dunno if the name is all that good though :-) regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07