Feature request: XDG Base Directory for .php_history

[nsfisis]

Description

XDG Base Directory is a specification that defines a list of directories where applications should store configs/data/caches. It is not required to follow, but many applications support it today.

For PHP, the location of .php_history, a file storing command line history in the REPL (php -a), is fixed to home directory.

ext/readline/readline_cli.c:

#ifndef PHP_WIN32
	history_file = tilde_expand("~/.php_history");
#else
	spprintf(&history_file, MAX_PATH, "%s/.php_history", getenv("USERPROFILE"));
#endif

There are several ways to support XDG Base Directory:

• Change path of .php_history to $XDG_DATA_HOME/php/history. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is not defined, use $HOME/.local/share instead.
• Change default path of .php_history to $XDG_DATA_HOME/php/history only if $XDG_DATA_HOME is defined. If not, use $HOME/.php_history as before.
• Introduce a new environment variable to set history file path like $PHP_HISTFILE. If $PHP_HISTFILE is not set, use $HOME/.php_history as before.

[bdsoha]

Why is this not being defined as an environment variable with a default fallback?

Other languages use such a lookup strategy (see 2 examples below):

• node: NODE_REPL_HISTORY
• less: LESSHISTFILE

[nsfisis]

closing because it was resolved by #13964