RE: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released

> -----Original Message----- > From: rwidmer@developersdesk.com [mailto:rwidmer@developersdesk.com] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 04:40 AM > To: Stanislav Malyshev; php4beta@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released > > I think a _system wide_ shared library would be an asset to PHP. Yes. > I have a couple of > libraries I want to make available to all the virtualvhosts on my > machine without > turning off safe mode, Yes. > and I hope to make quite a few more. I > think the same thing > for data files would be good too, but I could live without it. If > the PHP community > had a shared library available you would soon see a collection of > utilities like the > Perl module library. I think so. > I think this would be a very easy way to provide shared libraries. No new > configuration options are needed. (Maybe just one, to turn it of > and off.) Once safe > mode has been modified it works like this: Maybe another which specifies owners of the shared libraries. In effect it becomes a modification to safe mode, an "also-allow" option, as well - so files owned by "also-allow-users" users can be included/requried/etc into scripts in safe mode. > I don't care how it happens, I just want to see some kind of > system wide shared > library that anyone can use with safe mode on. Yes. > I want very tight > control over who can > add files to the library, which is why I suggest it must be done > by root. Maybe you > should be able to select some other user in php.ini, but I look > at maintaining this > library to be similar to installing the web server, not something > for an ordinary > webmaster. If we're lucky, someday there will be a couple hundred > standard libraries > that almost everyone has on thier systems. > > If _anyone_ has ideas on this, I'd like to hear them. Well I love you idea. If phplib used it, I would love it a lot more. Sam