Re: [new] PEAR::assertExtension()

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:57:42 +0200 "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com> wrote: > Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:45:42 +0200 > > "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com> wrote: > > > > > "M@rms" wrote: > > > > $ext = strtolower($ext); > > Why convert to low cases ? that may not work under case sensitive OS. > > > > I saw the point on do a little of error correction on users submitting > "Zlib" and things like so. But if there are extension with upper or > mixed case the function will fail of course. > > What do you think on this? Could that happend? Sadly, everything should happened. I already got extension with lower and upper cases, we can document the function and tell users to take care about that. Personnally I prefer a fully working system instead of a "howto work with filesystem on unix" for endusers ;). A solution is to add a optionnal parameter (damn 2 params for a extension loader ;) ) that set lower case (but that's not insensitive case) by default, and make this method works well for case sensitive systems, on demand. my 2cts pa