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Request #56905 Allow non-scalar constants to be defined and loaded
Submitted: 2006-03-21 09:08 UTC Modified: 2006-08-21 15:57 UTC
From: yonman at nsa dot co dot il Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: APC (PECL)
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-03-21 09:08 UTC] yonman at nsa dot co dot il 
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After integrating APC into my code I was surprised to find out that only scalar definitions can be stored and retrieved with APC's apc_load_constants and apc_define_constants.

If this limitation(?) can be lifted, it would allow the implementation of interesting i18n schemes and other templating solutions.

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 [2006-03-21 09:44 UTC] gopalv82 at yahoo dot com 
are you saying that you want constant arrays dumped into APC via this code path ?

There should be other more easier ways than going to all this trouble to cache it in shared mem.
 [2006-03-21 09:47 UTC] yonman at nsa dot co dot il 
Well, seemed reasonable since this is already done in APC, but limited to scalars. I'm guessing this limitation is there to protect the programmer from doing exactly I want to do... but shouldn't I at least have a choice?
 [2006-08-21 15:57 UTC] gopalv82 at yahoo dot com 
From the php manual: 

"""
  You can define a constant by using the define()-function.
  Only scalar data (boolean, integer, float and string) can 
  be contained in constants.
"""

There's no point, the language doesn't support non-scalar constants.
 
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