Re: Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard file.c

Excellent point... I should've known you'd be a step ahead of me.... Probably best to leave it out then, at least until users get used to the concept of contexts. -Pollita "Wez Furlong" <wez@thebrainroom.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.53.0304081756340.13015@zaneeb.brainnet.i... > I've considered this a few times; the thing that has stopped me from > implementing it so far is that I'm not 100% sure if this is a good thing > as it would become very much like having ini settings for each context > option. > > This is something that *could* cause problems; if a pear class assumes > the default has no special options set and then tries to open a file, it > might possibly fail because some settings are turned on. > > I like the idea, I'm just not sure if I like the potential headache :/ > > --Wez. > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 pollita@php.net wrote: > > > There is one thing I wanted to discuss in that regard though... What do you > > think of a "default context"? > > > > <?php > > $opts = array(array(....)); > > $context = stream_context_create($opts); > > stream_context_default($context); > > > > /* All stream related functions [fopen, file_get_contents, readfile, file, > > file_put_contents, etc...] will now use $context by default unless > > explicitly overridden */ > > ..... > > ..... > > ?>