shouldnt it be file_md5 if we are sticking with out namespace convention. - James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Newbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP DEV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 5:57 AM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] md5sum() patch
> Nahh I think md5_file() isn't very good. > > However, overloading md5() doesn't really seem like a good idea either. > > md5sum() is pretty appropriate, anybody who is going to use this function is > probably going to be familiar with the md5sum program. > > Plus md5sum() is fewer keystrokes. ;) > > -Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Markus Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:10 PM > To: Hartmut Holzgraefe > Cc: Lenar Lõhmus; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] md5sum() patch > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:37:22PM +0100, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote : > > Lenar Lõhmus wrote: > > > > >Alessandro Astarita wrote: > > >>Il 17:25, giovedì 15 novembre 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > >>>Then this will do the same: > > >>>$sum = `md5sum filename`; > > >>> > > >>Do I have to depends on the external executable? ...in my opinion is not > > >>the right way. > > > > > >+1 to the function > > > > hm, what about just overloading the current md5 function? > > > > if given a string -> current behavior > > > > if given a file handle resource -> read file and return sum > > -1 on that (+1 on md5_file() ) > > You want your code look like > > $f = fopen('filename'); > $md5sum = md5($f); > fclose($f); > > than > > $m45sum = md5_file($f); > > ? > > No seriously I hope ;) > > - Markus > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
