Hello Cristiano,
Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 9:00:41 AM, you wrote:
CD> What was proposed is something like this:
CD> File: application.php
CD> <?
CD> include_once ("classes/MyClass.inc.php");
CD> $f = fopen("files/test.txt", "r");
CD> ...
?>>
CD> The archive my_application.par (could be an .zip, etc) would have these
CD> three files inside:
CD> application.php
CD> classes/MyClass.inc.php
CD> files/test.txt
CD> And this standalone application is executed with:
CD> php -p <package-file> <startup-script>
CD> php -p my_application.par application.php
CD> Since PHP already have an ZIP file extension and now the filesystem
CD> functions have an improved abstraction layer, maybe it's time to think about
CD> adding transparent ZIP support on this abstraction layer.
I think that should be great to have transparent ZIP layer at the
"include"/"require" level so one could write something like "require
'./lib/some-arc.par/SomePath/MyClass.php'" but the command-line
interface imho should be similar to java i.e.
php -par my-app.par
And concrete info about app should locate in meta data file like jar's
meta-inf/manifest.mf because user executes application, not the script
'a.php' or 'b.php' ( application may consider this scripts are not for
execute by user ). Any info that he wants to provide to it should be
provided in command line.
But how will you differentiate between your par's dir and the dir where
archive is? I mean if you have par in directory
/home/me/php/my-app.par and in file
my-app.par/MyClass.php you write something like "require
'./SomeClass.php'" what file should be included? The
/home/me/php/my-app.par/SomeClass.php or /home/me/php/SomeClass.php?
If the first one is expected behavior how will you address the
filesystem beyond your archive, will you write something like "require
'../SomeClass.php'" for /home/me/php/SomeClass.php? Importing scheme
like java's one could solve this problem but it does not exist in PHP :(
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Best regards,
Simeon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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