Not so long ago, it was proposed that we should have an PHP archive model
like Java does. I think it might me useful for application deployment.
Someone posted that PEAR::Config has this feature. I could find such
feature.
What was proposed is something like this:
File: application.php
<?
include_once ("classes/MyClass.inc.php");
$f = fopen("files/test.txt", "r");
...
?>
The archive my_application.par (could be an .zip, etc) would have these
three files inside:
application.php
classes/MyClass.inc.php
files/test.txt
And this standalone application is executed with:
php -p <package-file> <startup-script>
php -p my_application.par application.php
Since PHP already have an ZIP file extension and now the filesystem
functions have an improved abstraction layer, maybe it's time to think about
adding transparent ZIP support on this abstraction layer.
Cristiano Duarte.
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