php-internals@php.net discussions for August 2013

71	[DRAFT] [RFC] Function autoloading

All, I have created a new draft RFC implementing function and constant autoloading in master: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/function_autoloading All feedback is welcome. Thanks Anthony

Anthony Ferrara
Aug 30, 2013 at 1:23 am
Dec 30, 2013 at 4:18 pm

28	[RFC] Constant Scalar Expressions

Hello all, I'd like to propose a new RFC for 5.NEXT: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/const_scalar_expressions This allows for defining constant expressions which are resolved at compile time. for example ...

Anthony Ferrara
Aug 13, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Oct 27, 2013 at 2:28 pm

25	[RFC] Syntax for variadic functions

Hi internals! I'd like to propose an RFC, which adds dedicated syntax for variadic functions: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics Basically this allows declaring variadics directly in the function ...

Nikita Popov
Aug 28, 2013 at 3:47 pm
Sep 23, 2013 at 1:35 pm

25	"php_serialize" session serialize handler

Hi all, Current session module has a few limitations due to "register_globals" support which is now obsolete. One of them is numeric key indexed session data. i.e. $_SESSION[1] = $var is not allowed ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Aug 7, 2013 at 6:59 am
Aug 11, 2013 at 3:24 am

24	windows.php.net

Hi, there has been some chatter about windows.php.net, which drives me to the question: Do we need that site? Why and for what? Few data items: * The "news" on w.p.n are not really maintained and ...

Johannes Schlüter
Aug 31, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Sep 2, 2013 at 3:16 pm

22	[RFC] Argument unpacking

Hi internals! This RFC proposes to add a syntax for argument unpacking: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argument_unpacking Basically, this is the "complement" of the variadics RFC: It is not about declaring ...

Nikita Popov
Aug 30, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Sep 1, 2013 at 1:06 am

18	Request #65501 uniqid(): More entropy parameter should be true by default

Hi all, I realized that not many users are using "more entropy" parameter Therefore, I made Request #65501 uniqid(): More entropy parameter should be true by default ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Aug 22, 2013 at 10:59 am
Aug 24, 2013 at 10:31 am

17	[PHP-DEV] RFC: constructor argument promotion

Everyone - Hi! Since this is my first post to this list, I'll introduce myself: I'm an engineer who has been working on HipHop VM in New York for the last half year or so after a long time working at ...

Sean Cannella
Aug 7, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Feb 2, 2014 at 6:06 pm

17	Attitude against distributions... (Was: JSON non-free license)

Hi, I would like to react on Stat's "it's-not-our-problem" comment in https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520 I am very sad to see a core developer take such a passive-aggressive stance against ...

Ondřej Surý
Aug 28, 2013 at 6:55 am
Aug 29, 2013 at 2:45 pm

14	Interest in a "null" SAPI for embedding?

Hello, We recently successfully embedded PHP into our application using an approach based on the embed SAPI. However, our application is large and complex, written entirely in C++, requires a bit ...

J David
Aug 16, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Aug 20, 2013 at 3:59 am

13	crc32() and ip2long() return values

Dear list, I recently ran into big problems with crc32() and ip2long() both of which I was using in the same codebase. I know these issues have been debated at length in the past, but this really ...

Rasmus Schultz
Aug 27, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Sep 7, 2013 at 6:20 pm

12	travis-CI failures

Hi! I've looked at travis-CI results for PHP (e.g. https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src/) and I am seeing that there are two extensions that produce fails that break the build: Bug #39858 (Lost ...

Stas Malyshev
Aug 11, 2013 at 3:49 am
Aug 22, 2013 at 6:05 pm

11	More powerful (and backward compatible) API of random number generator functions

Idea for an RFC for a more powerful (and backward compatible) API of random number generator functions. The following psaudocode is self explained (hopfully) const RAND_ALGO_LIBC const ...

Marc Bennewitz
Aug 28, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Sep 1, 2013 at 10:01 pm

9	Always set return_value_ptr?

Hi internals! Is there any particular reason why we only pass return_value_ptr to internal functions if they have the ACC_RETURN_REFERENCE flag set? Why can't we always provide the retval ptr, even ...

Nikita Popov
Aug 3, 2013 at 6:16 pm
Aug 31, 2013 at 3:20 pm

9	[RFC] Switch from json extension to jsonc [Discussion]

Subject: Switch from json extension which have a problematic (non-free) license to jsonc dropin free alternative. RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/free-json-parser Remi.

Remi Collet
Aug 29, 2013 at 5:54 am
Aug 30, 2013 at 2:42 pm

9	crypt() should raise error without 2nd parameter

Hi all, A user requested that crypt() should raise error without 2nd(slat) parameter. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55036 crypt() without salt generates extremely weak password hash. In addition to ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Aug 7, 2013 at 10:18 am
Aug 22, 2013 at 11:30 am

8	Which OSs and SAPI should PHP 5.6 support?

By way of a background. I've been doing a review of the exting code base looking at how to establishing a roadmap extend OPcache functionality across all supported OSes and SAPIs. And this raises a ...

Terry Ellison
Aug 19, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Aug 20, 2013 at 6:40 pm

8	Request #17860 Suggestion: auto detect whether session changed

Hi all, Following patch against master https://gist.github.com/yohgaki/6198611 implements FR #17860 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17860 This patch removes unneeded session writes. i.e. session data ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Aug 10, 2013 at 3:45 am
Aug 10, 2013 at 10:19 am

7	handling non-fatal compile-time errors

Hi, I've just bumped into https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65322 recently, and I would like you get some opinions on the issue. Personally I think that it is a really bad design to introduce ...

Ferenc Kovacs
Aug 8, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Sep 29, 2013 at 5:13 pm

7	Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Patch for https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44522 to allow uploading files above 2G.: main/SAPI.h main/rfc1867.c sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c

Hi! For me (64-bit linux) test upload_2G.phpt also fails with this output: Test PHP 5.6.0-dev Development Server started at Sun Aug 11 02:43:04 2013 Listening on http://localhost:8964 Document root ...

Stas Malyshev
Aug 11, 2013 at 2:42 am
Sep 2, 2013 at 7:46 am

6	Signature compatibility: Number of arguments

Hi internals! This is a spinoff from the variadics thread. Quoting Stas: This is a general issue in PHP that we might want to fix: Currently a method A is not compatible with a method B if A has less ...

Nikita Popov
Aug 29, 2013 at 9:33 am
Sep 18, 2013 at 12:56 pm

5	PROPOSAL: temp stream for post_data

Hi, I prepared a patch to replace sapi_globals' request_info post_data and raw_post_data with a temp stream and remove support for HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA. [1] PROS: * save up to 300% on post_data_len ...

Michael Wallner
Aug 27, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Sep 16, 2013 at 3:49 pm

5	Refactored magic methods

Hi internals. I started a work of refactoring magic methods from internals. The first goal was to never write ourselves things like "__get", but use macros for those names. (get, set, invoke, ...

Julien Pauli
Aug 2, 2013 at 4:47 pm
Aug 29, 2013 at 4:08 pm

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Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Strict session: ext/session/mod_files.c ext/session/mod_files.h ext/session/mod_mm.c ext/session/php_session.h ext/session/session.c ext/session/tests/003.phpt ext/session/tests/004.phpt ext/session/tests/005.phpt ext/session/tests/006.phpt ext/session/tests/009.phpt ext/session/tests/012.phpt ext/session/tests/013.phpt ext/session/tests/014.phpt ext/session/tests/015.phpt ext/session/tests/016.phpt ext/session/tests/018.phpt ext/ses

I don't see this new option referenced in the provided php.ini-{production,development} Remi.

Remi Collet
Aug 19, 2013 at 8:19 am
Aug 20, 2013 at 5:33 pm

5	PHP 5.5.2 RC1 is tagged

Hi Internals, Our RC1 of PHP 5.5.2 has been released for testing. It fixes some bugs in the 5.5 branch. You'll find details in the NEWS file. The packages can be found at ...

Julien Pauli
Aug 2, 2013 at 8:05 am
Aug 10, 2013 at 4:23 pm

4	VCS Account Request: requinix

I like how all the \"why I need a Git account\" reasons above are copied verbatim from the list of reasons one *doesn\'t* need a Git account :) Primary reason would be helping with ...

Damian Wadley
Aug 8, 2013 at 2:29 am
Aug 8, 2013 at 8:29 am

3	git branches 5.3/ 5.4 / 5.5

Hi, there were branches with the names 5.3 5.4 5.5 in our main repository. This was confusing with PHP-5.x which we use. As those where full merged they were most likely pushed by accident. I have ...

Johannes Schlüter
Aug 15, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Aug 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm

3	zend bison check

As I have no Zend karma, is anybody kind enough to merge the bison blacklist patch? https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/402 -- Regards, Mike

Michael Wallner
Aug 8, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Aug 9, 2013 at 6:47 am

3	Segfault on mysqlnd stream cast

Hey Johannes, could you take a look at: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6143477 You can reproduce in 5.5 with: sapi/cli/php ext/mysqli/tests/mysqli_poll_kill.php main/streams/cast.c:306 is: if ...

Rasmus Lerdorf
Aug 3, 2013 at 5:51 pm
Aug 5, 2013 at 11:42 am

2	[PATCH] LFS support for PHP 5.5.1

Hi, Please find attached a patch for adding large file size support to PHP 5.5.1. Basically, it allows 32 bits machine to address file larger than 4GB, get correct results when asking for their size, ...

X Ryl
Aug 30, 2013 at 2:43 pm
Aug 30, 2013 at 3:27 pm

2	Pull requests report (27/8/2013)

Hi, I'm please to say that we keep processing the requests faster and faster, leaving only few not handled in their first week. Thanks for everyone who helped. New: #420 ...

Lior Kaplan
Aug 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Aug 28, 2013 at 12:37 pm

2	5.4 RecursiveDirectoryIterator

Hello together, an incompatible change was made to the 5.4 series without any notice. It's related to RecursiveDirectoryIterator https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64228 See the source here ...

Martin Keckeis
Aug 20, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Aug 21, 2013 at 10:29 am

2	[PATCH] Support for parsing vlv control response

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62853 Originally produced and submitted by vanmeeuwen Can we have this patch checked for inclusion? We cannot do paginated responses properly without it. Kind Regards, ...

Henry Fallon
Aug 15, 2013 at 11:00 am
Aug 15, 2013 at 11:04 am

1	Module shutdown order again

Looking at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65463 My brain is foggy on why we call zend_destroy_modules() before zend_hash_destroy(GLOBAL_CLASS_TABLE) in zend_shutdown(). Anyone remember the reason? I ...

Rasmus Lerdorf
Aug 17, 2013 at 8:52 pm
Aug 17, 2013 at 9:24 pm

1	array_unique() and object comparison

array_unique() is perfect for removing duplicates in a string array, but not so great for an array of objects. SORT_REGULAR was added to compare items without casting them to string. However it uses ...

Matthieu Napoli
Aug 13, 2013 at 10:15 am
Aug 15, 2013 at 10:49 am

1	requinix php.net account?

Hi requinix, recently I've seen your mail address more often in the bug tracker providing useful comments helping users and developers triaging bugs. Would you be interested in quickly introducing ...

Johannes Schlüter
Aug 7, 2013 at 10:42 pm
Aug 8, 2013 at 2:17 am

0	Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Fixed bug #65564 stack-buffer-overflow in DateTimeZone stuff caught by AddressSanitizer: NEWS ext/date/php_date.c

What do you think to add the -fsanitize=address option (if available) for the debug build ? Note, this will make build / test slower. Remi.

Remi Collet
Aug 30, 2013 at 8:54 am
Aug 30, 2013 at 8:54 am

0	stream_get_contents does not like stream wrapper

Hi internal, I have met a strange behavior with stream_get_contents and stream wrapper. This is explained here: https://bugs.php.net/65581. Thoughts? -- Ivan Enderlin Developer of Hoa ...

Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
Aug 29, 2013 at 8:36 am
Aug 29, 2013 at 8:36 am

0	pdo_mysql and bug_39858.phpt

Hi! I'm looking into tests fails that I get with mysqlnd and mysql enabled, and on bug_39858.phpt I've noticed a strange thing. The code goes like this: $stmt = $db- prepare("CALL p()"); $stmt- ...

Stas Malyshev
Aug 25, 2013 at 5:52 am
Aug 25, 2013 at 5:52 am

0	PHP 5.4.19 and PHP 5.5.3 Released!

Hello! The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.19 and PHP 5.5.3. These releases fix a bug in the patch for CVE-2013-4248 in OpenSSL module and compile failure with ...

Stas Malyshev
Aug 22, 2013 at 11:33 pm
Aug 22, 2013 at 11:33 pm

0	Pull requests report (21/8/2013)

(reporting about two weeks) Merged requests (past 7 days): #359 <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/359 PHPTests for the DOMDocument::load and DOMDocument::loadXML #360 ...

Lior Kaplan
Aug 21, 2013 at 11:24 pm
Aug 21, 2013 at 11:24 pm

0	Announcements for PHP 5.4.18 and 5.5.2

Did I overlook the announcements for 5.4.18 & 5.5.2? Or aren't they posted to this list anymore? Jan

Jan Ehrhardt
Aug 17, 2013 at 8:40 pm
Aug 17, 2013 at 8:40 pm

0	[VOTE] Importing namespaced functions RFC

Hello internals, About 3 weeks have passed since I announced the use_function RFC. A number of issues were raised, and I believe all of them have been resolved at this point. I would like to initiate ...

Igor Wiedler
Aug 15, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Aug 15, 2013 at 2:40 pm

0	Pull requests report (7/8/2013)

Merged requests (past 7 days): #214 <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/214 First fixes for a 64bit compatible ftp extension #394 <https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/394 typofixes - non living ...

Lior Kaplan
Aug 7, 2013 at 8:15 am
Aug 7, 2013 at 8:15 am

0	Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Merge from GitHub: ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.c ext/opcache/ZendAccelerator.h

Hi! This would probably work fine. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

Stas Malyshev
Aug 2, 2013 at 6:47 pm
Aug 2, 2013 at 6:47 pm

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