Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Conditional INI support

[BuildSmart]

Now that what-if's are occurring in the theoretical world of intelligent INI, what about file testing capabilities so that the following can be used to preload extensions by existance?

#if -f ${EXTENSIONS_DIR}/gd.so
extension=gd.so
#endif

or some other syntax that allows testing to include an extension
On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Jani Taskinen wrote:

Currently UNDEFINED would be just string 'UNDEFINED'.
Doesn't atoi() for non-numeric string make it 0 ??
(or null..:) So that would work without changing anything..

--Jani

Dmitry Stogov kirjoitti:

I think it will work.
#ifdef UNDEFINED > 5  (false)
#ifdef UNDEFINED <= 5 (true)
(but anyway I think it is possible to find out an unclear condition)
Dmitry.
Marcus Boerger wrote:

Hello Dmitry,


an empty string which behaves like false in boolean evaluations?

marcus

Friday, February 15, 2008, 11:25:42 AM, you wrote:

shouldn't this be like in C/C++ where a non existing value is treated like

#if defined(PHP_MAJOR_VERSION) && PHP_MAJOR_VERSION >= 6
extension="unicode.so"
#endif

Here PHP_MAJOR_VERSION is a PHP constant that is not defined in php-5.3 but might be defined in the future version.

Dmitry.

Jani Taskinen wrote:

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:02 +0300, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

Jani Taskinen wrote:

c) We can use just "value" insted of ${value} in conditions.

Yup. ${foobar} is actually not any "variable" per se, but just a

needs to change.

reference to existing ini entry in the file. And I don't think that

Oh, I see. Then we can use just "$string" (or "$str.str") for ini entries and "string" for PHP constants. We can also implement defined() macro-function, to check if constant defined.

Why? Don't make php.ini parsing any more complex than it already
is(n't).

anyway? And why do you need defined() ??? (examples please? :)

--Jani

Any string which can pass as constant will have that constant's (or environment variable) value. Why do you need any "variable" in there

Best regards,
 Marcus

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