On Jan 5, 2015 10:41 PM, "Benjamin Eberlei" <kont...@beberlei.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Jan 4, 2015 6:52 PM, "Benjamin Eberlei" <kont...@beberlei.de> wrote: >> > >> > Hey everyone, >> > >> > I want to open discussion on my RFC to strengthen the ability of extensions >> > to provide functionality to developers in both C **and** PHP code. >> > >> > For this extensions can add PHP files to a list of "prepend files" that are >> > part of every request execution exactly the same way the INI >> > auto_prepend_file functionality works: >> > >> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/extension_prepend_files >> > >> > I propose implementation details in the RFC, but they are completely up to >> > discussion. I am even sure there is probably a better way than what I >> > proposed, because I am not familiar with the code. >> >> I understand the idea however I wonder what are the gains for the user? On any case the file has to be at the right place, etc. > > The shared object file has to be at the right place as well.
Make install, build dependent. Include paths are runtime dependent. It makes a slight bigger difference. >> >> Also as it is internals only, it could be nicer to expose the prepend config using the existing directive with options like first, before, last for the insert position. > > This assumes that we have dependencies between extensions, which we don't have anyways. Now if extensions depend on each other the order is important. I assume that the loading order is also the order that the MINIT is called, which then would also put dependent php files in order. > >> >> While being at it, a similar feature can be added to auto prepend/append as it can be very useful in user land as well. > > Yes maybe, although I don't see the benefit for userland TBH, compared to extensions. Extensions are about declaring functions/classes, prepend is normally about actually "executing"/running code. Not always really. But the two are so similar than I have some hard time to see why it should be different. Feel free to enlighten me :) Cheers, Pierre
