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Request #61317 phar locations in include_path are ignored
Submitted: 2012-03-07 10:11 UTC Modified: 2018-06-24 04:22 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:4.8 ± 0.4
Reproduced:4 of 4 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (50.0%)
Same OS:2 (50.0%)
From: staff at pro-unreal dot de Assigned: bishop (profile)
Status: No Feedback Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions
PHP Version: 5.3.10 OS: Linux
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 [2012-03-07 10:11 UTC] staff at pro-unreal dot de
Description:
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When including files from outside a Phar all phar:// locations in include path are ignored.


Test script:
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include_path = phar://my.phar/lib:/usr/share/php

phar://my.phar/lib/Foo/Bar.php:
<?php
echo 'YES: ' . __FILE__;
?>

/usr/share/php/Foo/Bar.php
<?php
echo 'You should not see this!'
?>

Test /tmp/test.php:
<?php
include 'Foo/Bar.php'
?>


php -d include_path='phar://my.phar/lib:/usr/share/php' /tmp/test.php

Expected result:
----------------
Output should be:
 
YES: phar://my.phar/lib/Foo/Bar.php

Actual result:
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Output is:

You should not see this!

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 [2012-03-07 10:16 UTC] staff at pro-unreal dot de
Also applies for full phar URLs (Assuming the phar exists and contains the described files). 

Replace phar://my.phar/lib with full url like phar:///tmp/my.phar/lib
 [2012-06-20 07:31 UTC] stawi at plusnet dot pl
Isnt this related to fact that PATH_SEPARATOR is ":" which occurs in "phar://" ?

Try this: 
  set_include_path('phar://my.phar/lib:/usr/share/php');
  var_export(explode(PATH_SEPARATOR, get_include_path()));

And the result is: array(
  0 => 'phar',
  1 => '//my.phar/lib',
  2 => '/usr/share/php',
)

Not shure how it works inside, but for PHP programmer it inconvenient...
Some frameworks uses autoloaders which do explode() and then foreach array to find file.

I know that changing PATH_SEPARATOR to other char can break a lot of code where it was hardcored as ":", but if constans exists one should use it ;)
 [2012-06-20 11:48 UTC] staff at pro-unreal dot de
I am not sure if ':' as PATH_SEPARATOR is the problem, but it works when calling include/require from a file inside a phar.

By the way ZendFramework for example uses preg_split to avoid the explode(':', $path) issue.
 [2018-01-16 02:07 UTC] bishop@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback -Type: Bug +Type: Feature/Change Request -Package: PHAR related +Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions -Assigned To: +Assigned To: bishop
 [2018-01-16 02:07 UTC] bishop@php.net
Within include_path, a colon separates the individual directories to search. If a directory has a colon in its name, then the colon appears to separate paths instead of acting as part of that directory's name. Whether the directory is a phar stream context, or a plain old directory with a colon in its name, the problem exists. Thus I don't think it's an issue specific to phar.

I also don't think it's a bug in PHP, because PHP isn't alone in this strict interpretation. Consider that bash operates similarly:

$ mkdir "localhost:80"
$ > "localhost:80"/hello.sh echo '#!/bin/bash
> echo "hello, world!"
> '
$ chmod +x "localhost:80"/hello.sh
$ "localhost:80"/hello.sh
hello, world!
$ PATH="localhost:80"
$ hello.sh
-bash: hello.sh: command not found

This separator problem is not unique to paths, though. It appears in other contexts: commas in the data for a CSV file, colons in the GECOS data of /etc/passwd, etc. The usual solution is either escaping the separator or signaling the value should be treated as a single unit. For example, if the directories to search are named "localhost:80" and "localhost:443", then you might try: localhost:80\:localhost:443 or "localhost:80":"localhost:443".

It is this latter approach that might qualify for a new PHP feature. One idea that strikes me, is that we could re-use the CSV parsing state machine to also parse paths. Set the separator to colon and let the parser do its thing, re-using the quoting mechanism it provides. Here is an example implementation in userland that could be projected into engine code:

$ cat example.php
<?php var_dump(str_getcsv('"localhost:80":"localhost:443":/tmp', ':'));

$ php example.php
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(12) "localhost:80"
  [1]=>
  string(13) "localhost:443"
  [2]=>
  string(4) "/tmp"
}

This has also been covered in documentation bug #53687:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53687

I've reclassified this as a feature request, requesting feedback.
 [2018-06-24 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
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