add experimental self-updating script

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/functions.php b/include/functions.php
index 957146f1f..69b481ac4 100644
--- a/include/functions.php
+++ b/include/functions.php
@@ -5506,4 +5506,18 @@
 
 		return null;
 	}
+
+	function tmpdirname($path, $prefix) {
+		// Use PHP's tmpfile function to create a temporary
+		// directory name. Delete the file and keep the name.
+		$tempname = tempnam($path,$prefix);
+		if (!$tempname)
+			return false;
+
+		if (!unlink($tempname))
+			return false;
+
+       return $tempname;
+	}
+
 ?>