php-internals@php.net discussions for January 2013

77	Voting periods

Hi, There’s something that I’m not quite following regarding open votes. Why are we saying that ‘votes will end no sooner than X’, instead of actually saying when they *will* end? If there’s no clear ...

Zeev Suraski
Jan 28, 2013 at 9:22 am
Jan 30, 2013 at 9:22 am

71	[RFC] Integrating Zend Optimizer+ into the PHP distribution

All, Following the discussion at the end of last week, I prepared a draft RFC for the inclusion of Optimizer+ in PHP. In parallel we’re in the process of prepping the source code for independent ...

Zeev Suraski
Jan 29, 2013 at 8:04 am
Feb 5, 2013 at 2:31 pm

54	ZTS - why are you using it?

I didn’t want to hijack the Optimizer+ thread so I’m creating a new one, based on the apparent level of interest in ZTS. This isn’t an RFC to remove ZTS by any stretch, but I **am** a bit confused ...

Zeev Suraski
Jan 29, 2013 at 9:03 am
Jan 30, 2013 at 1:18 pm

50	[PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Property Accessors for 5.5

I'm happy to say that Property Accessors is ready for a vote for inclusion in 5.5 release. Nikita and I (as well as Stas a bit) have all been working hard to make this happen for 5.5, voting and the ...

Clint Priest
Jan 17, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Jan 30, 2013 at 11:14 am

41	[VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

I've opened the vote for the "remove calls from incompatible context" RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx#vote -- Gustavo Lopes

Gustavo Lopes
Jan 20, 2013 at 7:17 pm
May 27, 2013 at 6:20 am

33	I think that "Function naming inconsistency" bug deservers more attention

I've seen discussion on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/174qng/lets_make_phps_function_names_consistent/ where many people are surprised why PHP can't have this done. Why inconsistency is ...

Damian Tylczyński
Jan 25, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Jan 28, 2013 at 1:16 pm

33	HEADS UP: Upcoming Feature Freeze for PHP 5.5.0

Hi Internals, as you might have read in the 5.5.0alpha4 announcments, we are moving forward with 5.5.0. We are already a bit late on the schedule and we want to begin the beta cycle in 14 days and ...

David Soria Parra
Jan 24, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Jan 26, 2013 at 5:19 pm

18	C# properties vs. accessors RFC

First of all, I think the functionality provided by Clint and Nikita's RFC [1] is in demand and would be an asset to PHP, but I also think it can repackaged more simply. People are comparing the RFC ...

Steve Clay
Jan 23, 2013 at 7:23 pm
Jan 24, 2013 at 1:46 pm

13	Proposal: php://memory/<id> (& ://temp/<id>)

Hi internals, The php://memory, and its respectful sibling php://temp, appear very useful when we need to compute streams on-the-fly. They offer a lot of services, like avoiding HDD accesses, ...

Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
Jan 31, 2013 at 9:38 am
Jan 31, 2013 at 2:39 pm

12	echo new SplFileObject(__FILE__);

Can somebody shed some light why: <?php echo new SplFileObject(__FILE__); returns the first line of the file (in that case `<?php`)? SplFileInfo has the path and SplFileObject extends from it but it ...

Hakre
Jan 29, 2013 at 10:36 pm
Jan 30, 2013 at 7:08 pm

12	Purpose of voting

Hey all, After reading the Voting Periods email thread, I'm left wondering a simple question (which has a difficult answer): What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed ...

Anthony Ferrara
Jan 28, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Jan 28, 2013 at 11:14 pm

10	[VOTE] Alternative typehinting syntax for accessors

Hi internals! I've opened the vote on the proposal for the alternative accessor typehinting syntax: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-alternative-typehinting-syntax#voting The vote is ...

Nikita Popov
Jan 21, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Jan 22, 2013 at 11:57 am

9	[VOTE] CURLFile uploading API

Hi! I've started a vote on CURLFile RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl-file-upload#vote Please vote. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

Stas Malyshev
Jan 21, 2013 at 1:32 am
Jun 3, 2013 at 5:13 pm

9

About PTY

Hi, I wonder if PHP supports PTY? I see old codes (from 2004 to 2010) using proc_open with $descriptors = [[0 = 'pty']] for example. When I try, I have an error because PTY seems to not be ...

Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
Jan 30, 2013 at 10:51 am
Feb 5, 2013 at 7:36 am

9	__init magic method

Has there ever been any discussion on an __init magic method for bootstraping static properties on class load? The usual solution I come up with is manually calling an init method post class ...

Pete Boere
Jan 22, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Jan 23, 2013 at 4:25 pm

9	new FTP function

Hi II would like to see "ftp_dir_exists()" function in PHP, right now its kinda unreasonable to expect people to use hacks such as "is_dir()" and having to re-authenticate just to check if the dir ...

KISE
Jan 18, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Jan 18, 2013 at 3:44 pm

8	VCS Account Request: ardbiesheuvel

Submitting performance tweaks specific to ARM platforms (both 32 and 64 bit)

Ard Biesheuvel
Jan 17, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Mar 3, 2013 at 11:50 am

6	more inline assembler noise

Hello, Again, apologies for prematurely declaring someone else's code 'crap'. There are no bugs in the inline x86 assembler in Zend/zend_operators.h, as far as I can tell, only two kinds of issues ...

Ard Biesheuvel
Jan 18, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Feb 4, 2013 at 5:28 pm

5	rfc:foreach-non-scalar-keys

I just saw this RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreach-non-scalar-keys By "non-scalar", presumably we're talking about objects? In the numbers that e.g. resources typically get used, having a ...

Rasmus Schultz
Jan 29, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Feb 1, 2013 at 2:31 am

5	moving some READMEs to the wiki

Hi, I think some of the README files currently present in the php-src repo would be better kept in the wiki and some of them are already duplicated/made redundant by our existing wiki pages. - ...

Ferenc Kovacs
Jan 29, 2013 at 11:27 am
Jan 30, 2013 at 11:27 am

5	Patch: Specify temp directory

Hi, some time ago I created a small patch to make it possible to specify the temp dir by the php.ini. It can be found here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60524 (my latest patch (against 5.4.3) also ...

ALeX Kazik
Jan 18, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Jan 28, 2013 at 9:29 am

5	Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC][vote] 5.3 EOL

Pierre, Can you review this RFC and the votes? The wording "5.5 final release" needs assessing. You probably meant "first 5.5 production release". If anyone interpreted it as it is actually written ...

Christopher Jones
Jan 21, 2013 at 10:44 pm
Jan 24, 2013 at 8:29 am

4	[RFC] send/recvmsg() wrappers in ext/socket

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/sendrecvmsg The module ext/sockets, a wrapper around the sockets API, does not include support to recvmsg() and sendmsg(). This RFC addresses this shortcoming by support ...

Gustavo Lopes
Jan 22, 2013 at 5:24 pm
Feb 21, 2013 at 8:23 am

3	Thread Safe ...

Can someone please fill in a little information here. When we start looking at multiple threads doing for example database lookups in parallel with the main page generation. Does that involve 'thread ...

Lester Caine
Jan 29, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Jan 29, 2013 at 3:48 pm

3	Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Alternative typehinting syntax for accessors

I now added a patch for this proposal: https://gist.github.com/4579298 (For more detailed individual commits see here: https://github.com/nikic/php-src/commits/alternativeSyntax) If there are no more ...

Nikita Popov
Jan 20, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Jan 21, 2013 at 11:15 am

3	Zend signed multiply for ARM

Hello all, Some of the senior citizens in this community may remember me. I used to be involved in PHP development (and went to some conferences) in 2002-2005. I am now working for Linaro ...

Ard Biesheuvel
Jan 17, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Jan 17, 2013 at 4:01 pm

2	VCS Account Request: tyraeltest10

just testing my recent change in the accept/reject emails, please first accept this account then delete it. thanks.

Ferenc Kovacs
Jan 28, 2013 at 5:57 pm
Jan 28, 2013 at 6:02 pm

2	cc: acomp failed for /usr/local/build/php-5.4.11_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.001/ext/curl/interface.c

disclaimer : I realize that by working on Solaris I am in fringe OS territory. So here I am once again trying to build PHP 5.4.11 on a Solaris 10 server with the following configure options ...

Dennis Clarke
Jan 24, 2013 at 6:47 pm
Jan 25, 2013 at 5:01 am

2	References in rfc:propertygetsetsyntax

Hello. This may have already been covered, so apologies ... With https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-v1.2#references, the return by reference is handled by the use of &get{}. How about ...

Richard Quadling
Jan 21, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Jan 22, 2013 at 11:10 am

2	Re: com php-src: fix bug #63462 (Magic methods called twice for unset protected properties): NEWS Zend/tests/bug63462.phpt Zend/zend_object_handlers.c

this appears to break tests/classes/unset_properties.phpt on 5.5 branch, can you please look into this?

David Soria Parra
Jan 22, 2013 at 8:16 am
Jan 22, 2013 at 10:50 am

2	Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Fixing insecure cURL file uploading

Hi Stas, What's the status of this fix ? Thanks Pierrick

Pierrick Charron
Jan 17, 2013 at 6:43 pm
Jan 17, 2013 at 9:30 pm

1	New SSL stream context option to prevent CRIME attack vector

Hi, we have an open PR for a new SSL stream context option to prevent the CRIME attack vendor. Anybody with more familiar knowledge of SSL should have a look: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/269 ...

Lars Strojny
Jan 30, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Feb 4, 2013 at 9:34 am

1	VCS Account Request: alejosimon

Vote in RFC

Alejo Simon
Jan 29, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Jan 31, 2013 at 6:43 pm

1	Policy on removal of push?

Is there a procedure to take regarding removal of a push to the github repo or do you simply close it. I would like to re-submit a push request against the 5.5 branch while removing the old push ...

Jason Gerfen
Jan 29, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Jan 29, 2013 at 8:22 pm

1	New uint native data type?

Hi all, I'm currently writing a php-program to process certain special binary files, which include 32-bit offsets which I need to read and manipulate. The problem is that PHPs int type is only 31-bit ...

Marco Schuster
Jan 25, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Jan 25, 2013 at 10:08 pm

1	Proposal - Removing netware support in 5.5 or 5.6

Seems that is past it's time http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7003092 I would start with netware folder https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/netware and then with all the NETWARE ...

Marius adrian popa
Jan 24, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Jan 24, 2013 at 11:42 pm

1	Which program creates the "phar_auto_file" class in the windows registry?

When I look into my registry, I see that .phar files are classified as "phar_auto_file". Does anybody know which program is creating these entries? I remember I used the PHP installer from php.net ...

Hakre
Jan 24, 2013 at 1:40 pm
Jan 24, 2013 at 3:00 pm

1	hash_pkbdf2() back-ported from PHP 5.5 into PHP 5.4.11

I've wanted a binary PKBDF2() function into PHP for a very long time and didn't want to wait for 5.5 release. Get the patch from ...

Jari Turkia
Jan 22, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Jan 22, 2013 at 11:56 pm

1	Re: com php-src: Fixed bug #64007 (There is an ability to create instance of Generator by hand).: NEWS ext/reflection/php_reflection.c ext/reflection/tests/bug64007.phpt

please note that this breaks ext/pdo/tests/pdo_036.phpt on the 5.5 branch. Please take a look!

David Soria Parra
Jan 22, 2013 at 8:21 am
Jan 22, 2013 at 9:00 am

1	broken inline assembler in zend_operators.h

Hello all, As I indicated yesterday, I am looking into PHP performance when running on ARM, and while doing that, I ran into the following code in Zend/zend_operators.h. For 32-bit x86, we have the ...

Ard Biesheuvel
Jan 18, 2013 at 11:25 am
Jan 18, 2013 at 11:44 am

1	Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] zend_parse_parameters() improvements

The RFC was unanimously accepted. I've merged it to 5.5 in b8603035. Thank you. -- Gustavo Lopes

Gustavo Lopes
Jan 16, 2013 at 10:41 pm
Jan 16, 2013 at 10:49 pm

0	RE: [PHP-DEV] [Reflection] Improve logic of ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs() for static methods

Maybe I can help explain a good example on were this is useful as I also suggested this improvement and created the patch for it: (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62113) This is actually something I ...

Nathan
Jan 31, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Jan 31, 2013 at 7:52 pm

0	[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.22RC1 and 5.4.12RC1 Released for Testing!

Hi! We've released PHP 5.3.22RC1 and 5.4.12RC1 which can be found here: 5.3.20RC1: http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.22RC1.tar.bz2 http://downloads.php.net/johannes/php-5.3.22RC1.tar.gz ...

Johannes Schlüter
Jan 31, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Jan 31, 2013 at 2:59 pm

0	SSL renegotiation DoS attack mitigation

PHP is currently susceptible to the DoS attack described here: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg07553.html Obviously this is a fairly narrow scenario, it only comes into play when ...

Chris Wright
Jan 30, 2013 at 11:28 am
Jan 30, 2013 at 11:28 am

0	RFC: Escaper

Hello, i found the escaper RFC from Brady. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/escaper https://gist.github.com/3066656 Is here anything work going on? Best regards

Martin Keckeis
Jan 29, 2013 at 9:51 am
Jan 29, 2013 at 9:51 am

0	Thoughts on "scalar objects"

Re: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects Initial impression: This patch reminds me of extending native prototypes in Javascript, with similar limitations that may explain why this has fallen out ...

Steve Clay
Jan 28, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Jan 28, 2013 at 7:29 pm

0	[RFC][result] Define PHP 5.3 end of life

A large majority has been in favor of the "One year with security fixes only, announce with5.5 final release" option. That means PHP 5.3 end of life (no release, no support, etc.) will happen exactly ...

Pierre Joye
Jan 28, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Jan 28, 2013 at 1:34 pm

0	Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #23815: Added extra ImageCopyMergeAlpha function

Is there any reason why the function can't be added in the interim before a patch is ready? Or is there a global consensus that the new functionality should be available under the existing function? ...

Matt clegg
Jan 24, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Jan 24, 2013 at 1:53 pm

0	PHP5.5.0alpha4 is ready for testing

Hi Internals, PHP 5.5.0alpha4 has been tagged today. This release contains bug fixes against alpha3, and adds the class name resolution via scalar and the DateTimeImmutable The packages can be found ...

Julien Pauli
Jan 24, 2013 at 11:24 am
Jan 24, 2013 at 11:24 am

0	Accessors in general

I've kept my head down since it's obvious that there is still no consensus as to how the latest accessors system will work including an RFC to change what is being proposed if it's accepted anyway? ...

Lester Caine
Jan 24, 2013 at 11:00 am
Jan 24, 2013 at 11:00 am

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