Re: [PHP4BETA] sessions via mm?

You're correct, something is wrong here. Sascha? On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Alan van den Bosch wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: > >On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Alan van den Bosch wrote: > >> The module pointers, the phpext_blahblah type entries, are contructed > >> from the module directory name, not the contents of the module directory. As a > >> result the phpext_session pointer is included, but the extra session handling > >> modules pointers are missed (they share the ext/session directory with the > >> session module). Is this a bug ? It does enforce a policy of one extension per > >> directory, which the session handling modules break. > > > >No, --with-mm is used to enable the mm library support if you have it > >installed. This library is what's used by the session mm handler. > >Session module doesn't break anything. > > > >-Andrei > >* All of the above is my opinion, unless specified otherwise. * > > Andrei, > Sorry if I was a little vauge, I didnt intend to imply that there was > anything "wrong" with the session code, but that there is an anomly with the > configure process with regards to sessions that do not have there own > directories. > > Looking at ext/session/config.m4 if the option --with-mm is passed to configure > then the macro PHP_EXTENSION(ps_mm) is executed. To my understanding this > should enable support of sessions to be stored using mm through a php extension > module named along the lines of ps_mm. > > Take a look at the definition of the PHP_EXTENSION macro in php4/aclocal.m4 > around line 420 and you will notice that the script that it expands to checks > for a directory named along the lines of $abs_srcdir/ext/$1 that wraps the > whole script segment... there is no php4/ext/ps_mm directory therefore no > phpext_ps_mm_ptr entry in internal_functions.c is made (latter on by genif.sh). > > My comment was (meant to be) that this method of dermining what module entry > pointers enforces a policy of one module per extension directory (whether this > policy is intentional or not). Following from this the alternative session > storage modules (ie ps_mm) break this policy, as they do not have their own > directory (i.e. ext/ps_mod ) > > -- > Regards, > > Alan van den Bosch > Sanguis Pty Ltd > > Mobile - 0408 106 872 > > /* All generalizations are false. */ > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > -Andrei "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus