Hi! > And then when the next people who want to build an alternative engine > come along, they will include this constant, to make their engine as > 'compatible' as possible with the current PHP engine.
Yes, same things that happened to user-agent string in browsers may start happening here. But I still think that doesn't invalidate idea of having user-agent identification. So we just need to make it very clear what we expect from people that set this string *and* from people that use this string (e.g. using "if(PHP_ENGINE !== 'php') die()" is discouraged since then everybody would set their PHP_ENGINE to php just so that software would work) - then we can hope it won't be abused too much... -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
