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Doc Bug #4294 return in script called from php.ini stops engine
Submitted: 2000-05-02 10:43 UTC Modified: 2002-01-13 19:06 UTC
From: frip at bigfoot dot com Assigned: torben (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0 Release Candidate 1 OS: AIX 4.3 / Solaris 2.6
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-05-02 10:43 UTC] frip at bigfoot dot com 
I don't know if this is a bug but I use the excellent php.prepend.append scripts by Drago which allow files named prepend.inc or append.inc to be parsed before any other one.
This package uses auto_prepend/auto_append directives in the php.ini. When the engine meets a return, it stops.

Here are my compilation options:

Configure command: './configure' '--with-apache=../apache_1.3.12' '--enable-track-vars'
'--prefix=/soft/php-4.0RC1' '--with-yp' '--with-sybase-ct=/soft/sybase'
'--with-ldap=/soft/openldap-1.2.1' '--with-gdbm=/soft/gdbm-1.7.3' '--with-gd=/soft/gd-1.7.3'
'--with-zlib=/soft/zlib-1.1.3' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-xml'
'--with-mysql=/soft/mysql-3.22.27' '--enable-trans-sid' '--disable-debug'

Greetings

Frip'

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 [2000-07-23 14:20 UTC] stas at cvs dot php dot net 
Please provide short reproducing script.
 [2000-08-18 13:06 UTC] waldschrott@php.net 
Closed due to missing user feedback.
 [2000-08-19 10:29 UTC] waldschrott@php.net 
-- main script --
<?php
  echo "This is the end of the script";
?>
-- prepend --
<?php
  return;
?>
 [2000-08-19 10:36 UTC] waldschrott@php.net 
well in fact it?s nowhere document what return() exactly
does, it seems to be possible to halt the whole script from
the gloabal scope be putting return() in it,
I don?t know whether this is intended (I think it shouldn?t
be possible to leave the global scope with it, perhaps a
e_notice or warning)
 [2000-08-19 10:39 UTC] waldschrott@php.net 
return() is defined now in prepend/append files, but isn?t
documented too...
 [2001-07-10 17:32 UTC] jeroen@php.net 
This is a side-effect of the way zend handles things: almost everything is treated as a kind of function. include()ed files, eval()ed code, and also auto_prepended files.

This is sometimes useful, (return from an included library file for example when something is detected).

Anyway, this should be documented. Adding to the phpdoc/TODO
 [2002-01-13 19:06 UTC] torben@php.net 
Fixed in CVS.
 
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