This allows the common phpBB objects to be automatically accessible to
extensions without the author having to globalize and assign each one
himself. This is better because it also gives purpose to the
phpbb_extension_controller class; instead of just being the way to
ensure a handle() method is present, it also does this work for us.
PHPBB3-10586
* imkingdavid/ticket/10586:
[ticket/10586] Added space in if statement
[ticket/10586] Tidy up comments
[ticket/10586] Tests finally work (thanks naderman)
[ticket/10586] Correctly purge board cache and don't rename install directory
[ticket/10586] trying to get tests to work
[ticket/10586] more work on getting tests to pass
[ticket/10586] Tests are coming along, just a little more to go
[ticket/10586] Rename install directory back to install/ after tests
[ticket/10586] browse tests now work, but mine dont. at least we are making progress
[ticket/10586] initial work on copying fixtures. Note that this depends on 10706
[ticket/10586] Adding the extensions used by the tests
[ticket/10586] Now tests run, but fail. But here is what I have.
[ticket/10586] some bootstrap additions and test changes to try and make it work
[ticket/10586] test stuff. does not work yet, still need to put phpBB objects in bootstrap.php
[ticket/10586] Copy/paste fail fixed
[ticket/10586] Sanitize periods from class names, use manager to get path.
[ticket/10586] Removed file_exists() check because class_exists() covers that.
[ticket/10586] Extension front controller
The existence of ext directory is checked, if not present a proper
error message that file doesn't exist is printed out. No Fatal
Error messages.
PHPBB3-10703
By default RecursiveIteratorIterator skips all directories.
This results in extension manager not finding any extensions.
Add RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST to correct this.
PHPBB3-10614
The enable or purge operation of an extension could take a long time if an
expensive operation needs to be executed on a large set of data. To allow
this to succeed from a web interface with max_execution_time set in the
webserver's php configuration, subsequent requests must continue the
operation started earlier. So individual enable and purge implementations
must be able to spread their work across multiple steps.
PHPBB3-10323
