Could it be possible to patch a complete php file?

[tomolimo]

Hello, First: thank you for your great (and marvelous) job! Second: request explanations: I would like to patch a complete PHP file, how is it possible to do so? Could it be included in next release? Thank you, Regards, Tomolimo

[antecedent]

Hi,

Thank you :), but I'm unsure what was meant by patching a complete PHP file. Is it:

• "rerouting" an include statement? [Edited to add this point]
• making PHP behave as if the file existed, while in reality it doesn't?
• retrieving the code of a file after Patchwork has applied its transformations to it?
• circumventing Patchwork's setup scheme that requires you to have at least two scripts?
• something else?

[tomolimo]

Hello, In fact I've got php files that are served by a web server, and I would like to patch these files. i.e.: instead of file x.php I would like the web server to execute the patched version of it.

But the more I’m thinking to it the more I believe that Patchwork can’t do that, due to the fact that execution of Patchwork can’t precede the execution of the PHP script x.php… Or is there a way to tell the PHP interpreter that it should start executing Patchwork, before any other scripts?

Do you confirm ?

Thank you, Regards, Tomolimo

[ktomk]

the feedback is late, see auto_prepend_file PHP ini setting which you can use to setup patchwork before any php script.

[tomolimo]

Thank you anyway, I didn't know this PHP feature, regards, Tomolimo