Re: [users@httpd] Re: PHP script as Apache filter or "callback"

[Brian Mearns <me...@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Nicholas Sherlock <n....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian Mearns wrote:
>>
>> I've got a PHP script that I want to call for every request under a
>> certain location. Specifically, I want to alter/set the response
>> headers using this script. I know headers can be set in other ways,
>> but in this case, the heders are set using some fairly complex logic
>> which I don't think can be done in the conf file directly, plus the
>> PHP script will have some other side effects on the server.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to do this? If not, can anyone point me to a
>> good tutorial for writing apache filters?
>
> You might try PHP's auto_prepend_file:
>
>  auto_prepend_file  string
>
>    Specifies the name of a file that is automatically parsed before the main
> file. The file is included as if it was called with the require() function,
> so include_path is used.
>
>    The special value none disables auto-prepending.
>
> This allows you to run some PHP code before any script in the directory you
> set it for is run. It will only work for documents which PHP is set to
> parse, of course, so it won't help out for requests for other objects like
> images.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas Sherlock

Thanks for all the feedback, I think writing a custom Apache filter is
my best bet.

Thanks, again!
-Brian


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