[Phplib-users] change of parameter location

[Dennis G. <ge...@cv...>]

right now, as I see it,

the following things have to be done to configure PHPLIB:
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1/ Extend any classes.
2/ Put them in the prepend file
3/ Alternatively, put the extensions in local
4/ In the session class hand write in the container class.
5/ In the open page statment, give the extended class names.



If it were being redone from scratch, I'd do it like this:
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1/ Make page an object, call it phplib_page, in phplib_page.class.php.

2/ Do away with local, prepend, page files, (phplib_page.php would take their place)

3/ Create a global array called $PHPLIBCFG at the top of phplib_page.class.php
with slots,
	's' => array( 'file'=>'session.inc' , 'class'=>'Session' ),
	'u' => array( 'file'=>'user.inc',     'class'=>'User' ),
	'a' => array( 'file'=>'auth.inc',     'class'=>'Auth' ),
	'p' => array( 'file'=>'perm.inc',     'class'=>'Permission' ),
and possibley I would also make the user/auth/perm be a form of phpgacl, (look 
it up on web)

4/ Use separate files for extending each of the class types,
sess/user/auth/perm.

6/ to use the library, however it was configured, would be simple, just
include	'phplib_page.class.php' or the file for whatever class you had for 
extending phplib_page. Pass a string for whatever functinality you wanted in the 
application, i.e. 's', 'u', 'a', 'p'. So if I wanted sessions only, I'd create 
an instance:
	$my_page = new phplib_page( 's' );
for session and user variables,
	$my_page = new phplib_page( 'su' );
etc.

7/ The constructor would assign references to instantiations of 
sess/user/auth/perm objects to class/object variables. Then it would assign 
class functions to the PHP native session handlers.

8/ All public functions would return either TRUE, or an error string. NO output 
would go to the screen.