From: dj_oldfield at yahoo dot com Operating system: MANY PHP version: 4.3.10 PHP Bug Type: Filesystem function related Bug description: This is more of a request then a bug really
Description: ------------ I currently work with 4.3 because I have trouble getting phpMyAdmin to work with 5.x. In regular development environments ( and as a contract developer ) I frequently work on code that is intended to run a development environment and a live environment. In doing so, many of the files that I use are interacting with a different directory structure. To fully take advantage of the NIX based advantages... file based templates are a MUST... especially with PHPs automatic formatting of strings ( WHICH IS REALLY COOL FROM A PROGRAMMERS PERSPECTIVE! ). The problem is... that filesystem functions require full knowledge of the working specifications of the filesystem... which for the moment... I am actually making a script to auto-fix. I think that it would be nice to have new versions of require, include, and file_get_contents functions which are configured directly to the root directory for the website... E.G. include_from_root require_from_root file_get_contents_from_root where the root directory is scanned from it's contents. I fear that writting wrapper functions would be in poor convention and could create erroneos results, so I wanted to take this idea to the source. Considering that many people are using PHP on a hosted source... it would stand to reason that this functionality would make php code more portable... and therefore enable easier handling of php scripts. Finally... include_path would be different on a per-site basis. Can you make it so that php can watch for "WEBSITE ROOT DIRECTORIES" having their own php.ini file? This way... hosted solutions would be better able to cater to a more open work environment. Reproduce code: --------------- // the desired code: include_from_root( '_includes/some_file.php' ); require_from_root( '_includes/some_other_file.php' ); $file_text = file_get_contents_from_root( '_includes/source_file' ); //... code here print( $file_text ); Expected result: ---------------- // in hopes to return data from::: this text came from /usr/websites/www.website.com/_htdocs/_includes/some_file.php this text came from /usr/websites/www.website.com/_htdocs/_includes/some_other_file.php this text came from /usr/websites/www.website.com/_htdocs/_includes/source_file.php Actual result: -------------- // NOT APPLICABLE -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32611&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32611&r=mysqlcfg
