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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] userland macros
From: wmeler@wp-sa.pl (Wojtek Meler)

Cristiano Duarte wrote:

> Is possible to implement userland macros in a PHP extension or it can 
> only be implemented in the core?
>
> I know that macros is a preprocessor task and I think PHP has no 
> preprocessor (does it?).
>
> So it's possible to implement a preprocessor ?

I think you can use stream wrappers with some limitations (definitions 
should be in different file than  their use).

Regards,
Wojtek