Re: [PHP-DOC] System-dependent functions

2004-08-11 Thread Gabor Hojtsy
Another example is touch(). It requires utime which I assume all OS's have although I don't know. And if not I assume PHP might essentially say No utime huh? Let's use mtime/atime/ctime instead and define HAVE_UTIME as true. Again, I don't know this topic of utime so am only guessing here.

Re: [PHP-DOC] System-dependent functions

2004-08-11 Thread Nuno Lopes
I think this information should be individualized per function. Each would mention the conditions that need to be met, and why it may not be met. Having one entity for this will only scare the user and force extra work on those who will have it available. I am guessing that some of these

Re: [PHP-DOC] System-dependent functions

2004-08-11 Thread Philip Olson
Another example is touch(). It requires utime which I assume all OS's have although I don't know. And if not I assume PHP might essentially say No utime huh? Let's use mtime/atime/ctime instead and define HAVE_UTIME as true. Again, I don't know this topic of utime so am only

[PHP-DOC] System-dependent functions

2004-08-10 Thread Dave Barr
Some functions are system-dependent in that if they're not detected at compile time, they won't be included in PHP. Currently the documentation does not tell the user any information about this type of function availability and could cause some confusion when a user tries to use a function and it

Re: [PHP-DOC] System-dependent functions

2004-08-10 Thread Philip Olson
I think this information should be individualized per function. Each would mention the conditions that need to be met, and why it may not be met. Having one entity for this will only scare the user and force extra work on those who will have it available. I am guessing that some of these