I suspect you could implement the desired functionality using http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-wrapper-register.php
although I can't find any info on whether include/require actually work with registered stream wrappers .. maybe one of the devs could confirm/deny whether this is possible. which would allow you to do something like this (assuming it is possible to do): require_once 'momcr://foo/script.php'; Mo McRoberts wrote: > Hi list, > > Apologies if I'm sending this to the wrong list; I couldn't see another > which was more appropriate on the PHP Mailing Lists page. > > I'm developing a PHP extension for which part of the functionality can > be described in a nutshell as: > > * at request start-up time, build a map of identifiers to path-names, read > from a configuration file; > > * whilst a user script is being processed, a function provided by the > extension can be called to add, remove or modify items in the mapping; > > * a user script can call a function, passing it an identifier in the map, > and the extension should simulate require_once being called with the > corresponding pathname (with some transformation applied). > > For example, if the configuration file specified that 'foo' mapped to > /www/common/foo, calling the above function with a parameter of 'foo' > might simulate require_once('/www/common/foo/script.php') (where the > transformation applied in this case is appending 'script.php' to the given > pathname). A prototype implementation written in PHP itself works well enough, > but obviously there are scoping issues with such an implementation (i.e., > any scripts included are included within the scope of the function, not the > caller) which I want to avoid through the use of an extension. > > Obviously, much of this is pretty trivial and straightforward. My problem is > the actual simulation of require_once itself. As it's a language intrinsic, > there's no simply-exposed API for performing the same action. Digging through > the PHP sources, I've come across zend_execute_scripts(), which seems to > fit the bill, although there's no documentation and very few examples of it > being used outside of the PHP engine itself. > > From skimming as many bits of the PHP sources that actually use > zend_execute_scripts() that I could find, the code I've come up > with isn't hugely dissimilar to this: > > static int > do_required(const char *filename TSRMLS_DC) > { > int r; > zend_file_handle zh; > > if(SUCCESS != (r = zend_stream_open(filename, &zh TSRMLS_CC))) > { > return r; > } > if(NULL == zh.opened_path) > { > zh.opened_path = estrdup(filename); > } > if(zend_hash_add_empty_element(&EG(included_files), > zh.opened_path, strlen(zh.opened_path) + 1) == SUCCESS) > { > r = zend_execute_scripts(ZEND_REQUIRE_ONCE TSRMLS_CC, NULL, 1, > &zh); > } > zend_stream_close(TSRMLS_CC); > return r; > } > > Simple enough, right? Wrong. > > I'm hoping at this point that somebody who knows the Zend internals pretty > well will immediately spot which things I'm not initialising, > saving/restoring, > or happen to be double-freeing at this point, because I'm at a loss. My > symptoms are this: > > * If calls to this function are nested, and an inner call results in > zend_stream_open() failing, I get faults in zend_get_executed_lineno(), > suggesting corruption somewhere. > > * If I save, reset and restore return_value_ptr_ptr, active_op_array, > opline_ptr before doing anything, things seem better, but the Warning > message reported when the file can't be opened gives the error location > as [no active file] on line 0, which is less than ideal. > > * If I only save/reset/restore around the call to zend_get_executed_lineno() > itself, things seem to work until I get as far as installing the extension > for my Apache 2.2 module build of PHP: at which point, as soon as there's > some nesting things start to go bad (errors reported or not). Removing the > final zend_stream_close() call stops Apache from dying, but I strongly > suspect that I'm just masking the problem rather than fixing it. > > So, my questions are: what am I doing wrong, and is there a better way to > accomplish the same thing? I considered evaluating a script instead of > trying to simulate require_once itself, but that seemed incredibly kludgy. > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Mo. > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php