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Bug #1531 require() causes flex scanner error
Submitted: 1999-06-12 07:14 UTC Modified: 2001-02-10 13:40 UTC
From: graeme at kc dot co dot nz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0 OS: Linux-2.0.36 x86
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-06-12 07:14 UTC] graeme at kc dot co dot nz 
A condition arose where require() was called with "./" as the file to include. This caused the error "input failure in flex scanner" to occur.
Granted, including "./" is kinda dumb :)

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 [1999-06-20 21:06 UTC] jim at cvs dot php dot net 
Zeev knows about this one, and I believe it will
be fixed in PHP4. There may actually be a very
old bug on this as well.
 [2000-08-17 10:57 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
still there even in 4.0.1
 [2000-08-17 11:07 UTC] stas@php.net 
I don't see problem here. ./ is not a file, and reading it as a file fails. So it should be.
 [2000-08-17 11:21 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
still it should not result in a parse error

it should produce a warning 

  PHP Warning:  Failed opening './' for inclusion 

as with other unknown files
 [2000-08-17 11:48 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
BD>> still it should not result in a parse error

> It's not parse error, please read the message.
> It didn't failed opening, it failed reading. 
> And require is not allowed to fail.
> That's not unknown file, that's known non-file.
>-- 
>Stanislav Malyshev   stas@zend.com          

ok, got it now, i thought it was related to just ./,
not directories in general

but it fails for include to, while including for
example a non-existing file produces the message
i cited above and the error message is very
misleading

so i move this on to feature requests:

1) should give clearer error-message

2) at least include should treat directories
   like nonexistant (or empty?) files
   and issue a warning instead of a fatal error
 [2001-02-10 13:25 UTC] jimw@php.net 
4.0 still gives the same message.
 [2001-02-10 13:40 UTC] zeev@php.net 
intended behavior
 
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