From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: all PHP version: 4.2.3 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: define() defined() usage of constants -> handler
lets say for example you have vast ammounts of code which use a language system which is based on define() statements, and ofcourse addressing of theese in the source code in the following way: echo date(_MB_TODAYSDATE,time()); things get confusing while editing code and youre bound to come to unused/unreferenced constants (or missing ones). having the handler would help us do two things: #1 using the define() statement to call a handler with the $key, $val pair, in which a person could for example store this in a database (to display and edit on a webpage for example) #2 - this is a three part advancement a) a person could count how many times a variable has been referenced (and store that number into the database, so eventually after playtesting every part of the software you find "unused" keys); b) a person could also store information on constants that are not really defined (a defined() check to acctually throw out errors or create "unused" defines in the database, for easy editing later) c) a constant doesnt really need to be defined, it can be also fetched from the database on first reference - or whatever other behaviour the user wants to make this could/should be done in the way like set_error_handler and restore_error_handler, with the sole difference that you would need two function names as the parameters (or have two functions which have one), i dont see a problem implementing this in 4.3 or 5.0 the latest, as it would really proove usefull to many people (mainly the ones who made their language system based on define statements in order to help them clean their code or transfer to a more advanced multilanguage system, operated with a database, xml, whatever they think of when writing a handler for this) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19610&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19610&r=globals
