Re: Re: [PREVOTE] PHP Engine Constants
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Tue, 06 Sep 2016 23:24:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [PREVOTE] PHP Engine Constants | ||
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Hi!
> And then when the next people who want to build an alternative engine
> come along, they will include this constant, to make their engine as
> 'compatible' as possible with the current PHP engine.
Yes, same things that happened to user-agent string in browsers may
start happening here. But I still think that doesn't invalidate idea of
having user-agent identification. So we just need to make it very clear
what we expect from people that set this string *and* from people that
use this string (e.g. using "if(PHP_ENGINE !== 'php') die()" is
discouraged since then everybody would set their PHP_ENGINE to php just
so that software would work) - then we can hope it won't be abused too
much...
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com