Hi all,
I've been working on an extension which contains a
"debugging function". This function uses zend_printf()
to print a list of extension-specific information /
help instructions to the screen, in a similar manner
to phpinfo().
It was pointed out to me that this might be a useful
function to keep in, in a tidied-up form, when the
extension is finished.
I'm trying to ascertain the correct way to terminate
the entire calling php script, after print-out, once
this function has been called. There seem to be a
number of ways of trying to do this, but I was
wondering if there is a well-established, correct
methodology in standard use.
I had a good look at the source in the /ext directory,
but none of the extensions I looked at seem to
implement this behaviour, and I've scoured the /Zend
directory, but not managed to find anything.
[I freely concede that I could be being an incompetent
blind eejit, as I'm usually a C++/Java guy, and all
that pre-processor action has left #-marks burned into
my retina. :)]
The behaviour I'm after is something like that of
zend_error(E_ERROR, ...), but without the printout.
One method I'd considered is to change local value of
'error_reporting' / 'display_errors' and do just that,
but this might have an impact on log output, or may
not be correct.
Another idea was to call exit() from the global
function table using call_user_function_ex(). It
occurred to me, though, that this might be dangerous,
given the thread resource manager and particularly the
memory-allocation behaviour of the fourth argument -
the return value zval** (or is specifying NULL / 0
acceptable here?). I'm not sure I'd want to be
allocating heap immediately before exiting etc.
Are either of these methods valid, or are they totally
screwy / dangerous? Is there an established method for
doing this? As you can probably gather, I'm slightly
confused. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Apologies if this is not the right list for these
matters.
Cris
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