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Doc Bug #46956 document the mysterious 'from' directive
Submitted: 2008-12-27 18:32 UTC Modified: 2009-09-18 06:28 UTC
From: philip@php.net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
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 [2008-12-27 18:32 UTC] philip@php.net 
Description:
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We have a theoretical PHP directive named 'from' that, according to the documentation:

http://php.net/manual/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.from

"Define the anonymous ftp password (your email address)."

This was added by Jani to php.ini Fri Jun 1 03:19:53 2001 UTC with the following:

Commit message:
Added missing configuration directive: from
which is used by fopen() to be send as the default password

Entry:
; Define the anonymous ftp password (your email address)
;from="john@doe.com"

However, I am unable to determine if this really exists [anymore, and when] or why it exists or if it should instead be documented under the FTP extension.

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 [2008-12-31 05:18 UTC] torben@php.net 
Hi Philip,

Yes, it appears to still exist. The option is still there in the supplied php.ini and is used in ext/standard/ftp_fopen_wrapper.c (so not in the FTP extension).

For my money it's probably OK where it is.


Torben
 [2008-12-31 05:54 UTC] philip@php.net 
I think you're right, that its current location is probably fine. And while discussing it a little with Hannes the other day we noticed it's also used in http_fopen_wrapper.c ... so maybe this rarely used ini setting is worth mentioning somewhere else too.
 [2009-09-18 06:28 UTC] svn@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of torben
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=288434
Log: A couple more mentions of ini.from in the relevant spots.
Addresses bug #46956.
 [2009-09-18 06:28 UTC] torben@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 
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