Tickets :: Comment on [#3037] Horde_Config should validate generated PHP

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Comment	>> I already thought about that a few times, but this would only be >> possible with > >> calling a PHP cli with the -l flag, but how to handle this >> gracefully with the lots of > >> different places where it can be installed - if it is installed at all? > > > > Well, if we assume that the worst that can happen is a parse error - > as opposed to a fatal error - we could eval() it. Since we require > admin access this might not be as bad a security risk as otherwise. > > > >>> Also, to help achieve more specific error messages, we should add a > >>> new type for PHP code that also validates the individual snippets so > >>> that you can't enter something that's not valid on the right side of > >>> an = expression in one of those fields. > >> > >> Wouldn't this be covered by the above? > > > > Other way around, really - if we lint the whole file we can't tell > the user which field the error was in, if we lint each field we can.
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