php-internals@php.net discussions for January 2015

147	[RFC] Scalar Type Hints v0.2

Good evening, I’ve made some quite significant changes to my Scalar Type Hints RFC, and bumped its version to 0.2. Here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints This is a new thread because I’ve ...

Andrea Faulds
Jan 14, 2015 at 12:17 am
Feb 5, 2015 at 1:16 am

65	[RFC] Extension Prepend Files

Hey everyone, I want to open discussion on my RFC to strengthen the ability of extensions to provide functionality to developers in both C **and** PHP code. For this extensions can add PHP files to a ...

Benjamin Eberlei
Jan 4, 2015 at 11:52 am
Jan 11, 2015 at 9:56 am

52	[RFC] [VOTE] pecl_http

Hi, Discussion has been very low on this topic since it was proposed on August 19th, so I just opened the vote on the RFC whether to add pecl_http to the core. The vote will be open until about 12:00 ...

Michael Wallner
Jan 28, 2015 at 12:17 pm
Feb 1, 2015 at 10:00 pm

47	[RFC] [DISCUSSION] pecl_http

Hi! I’ve rewritten the RFC for pecl_http and hopefully addressed most of the things mentioned previously. I you still find anything lacking, please let me know, so I can expand the RFC accordingly ...

Michael Wallner
Jan 29, 2015 at 11:16 am
Feb 8, 2015 at 10:25 pm

42	PHP7 Homework for everyone reading this list

By installing a couple of apps (Wordpress-4.1, Drupal8 and Moodle - there are still some issues in Moodle I haven't figured out yet) on a box we've tracked down some bugs over the last couple of ...

Rasmus Lerdorf
Jan 22, 2015 at 5:05 pm
Jan 27, 2015 at 11:07 am

34	One API to rule them all? (Was: Extension Prepend Files)

Funny to see you mention this. I literally just pulled together a meeting today to discuss HHVM's admittedly unstable extension API. One idea to emerge from this was to design a new extension API ...

Sara Golemon
Jan 10, 2015 at 1:10 am
Jan 15, 2015 at 3:15 am

33	Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Revert "Disable PEAR by default": configure.in

PHP 7 would be a good time to cut the ties between the PHP core and PEAR. Why not get rid of it completely?

Sebastian Bergmann
Jan 26, 2015 at 10:17 am
Jan 31, 2015 at 5:42 pm

29	[RFC] Combined Comparison (Spaceship) Operator

Good morning, This is a reboot of Davey Shafik’s RFC (with permission). After recent discussions about sort functions, I was inspired to bring this back up, as I think it would be a useful feature ...

Andrea Faulds
Jan 19, 2015 at 8:28 am
Jan 24, 2015 at 12:01 am

29	rand(), mt_rand() and limits

Hey internals, As we’re moving to clean some things up in PHP 7, I think it might be worth looking at the rand()/mt_rand() situation. Currently, we have two standard-library functions to obtain a ...

Andrea Faulds
Jan 11, 2015 at 10:12 pm
Jan 13, 2015 at 2:32 am

24	[RFC] Immutable variables and objects

Hello, internals! Today I was looking at PSR-7 and discovered this part of code: $body = new StringStream(json_encode(['tasks' = [ 'Code', 'Coffee', ]]));; $request = $baseRequest - withUri($uri- ...

Alexander Lisachenko
Jan 30, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Feb 3, 2015 at 9:58 pm

24	[RFC] Remove the date.timezone warning

Hey, I'd like to request removal of the date.timezone warning. Here is the RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal Bob

Bob Weinand
Jan 27, 2015 at 12:34 am
Jan 27, 2015 at 8:16 pm

23	Top 10 Pecl extensions PHP7 compatibility

Hello, Had a discussion with Rasmus today. It would be cool if we could have a PHP7 compat of our top-10 Pecl extensions before our first PHP7 RC. This will allow more people to help testing both ...

Julien Pauli
Jan 14, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Jan 17, 2015 at 6:00 am

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Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Faster sorting algo: UPGRADING Zend/Makefile.am Zend/tests/methods-on-non-objects-usort.phpt Zend/zend_API.c Zend/zend_hash.c Zend/zend_hash.h Zend/zend_ini.c Zend/zend_llist.c Zend/zend_qsort.c Zend/zend_qsort.h Zend/zend_sort.c Zend/zend_sort.h Zend/zend_ts_hash.c Zend/zend_types.h configure.in ext/ereg/ereg.c ext/intl/collator/collator_sort.c ext/phar/dirstream.c ext/phar/phar_internal.h ext/standard/array.c ext/standard/info.c ex

I think this broke usort() of more than 16 elements. eg. <?php $pr = [ [ 'id' = 'aaa', 'date' = 'Oct 8, 2006' ], [ 'id' = 'bbb', 'date' = 'Nov 14, 2008'], [ 'id' = 'ccc', 'date' = 'Dec 19, 2014'], [ ...

Rasmus Lerdorf
Jan 16, 2015 at 7:17 pm
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:14 am

22	Faster zend sorting implementation

Hey: I was working on zend_qsort improvement. but I got a problem need to be disscussed with you fist.. as we know, previously zend_qsort is not a stable sorting algo. my draft patch (which already ...

Xinchen Hui
Jan 5, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Jan 15, 2015 at 3:27 am

20	Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC] Enable error_handler callback parameters to be passed by reference

Here is the rfc: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/error_handler_callback_parameters_passed_by_reference Thanks to reeze for coding and putting it on the wiki. Regards Thomas reeze wrote on 23.01.2015 10:59:

Thomas Bley
Jan 27, 2015 at 2:55 am
Jan 29, 2015 at 8:20 am

19	[VOTE] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

Hi internals! Voting on the removal of deprecated functionality in PHP 7 is now open: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_deprecated_functionality_in_php7#votes As requested, I've split this up in many ...

Nikita Popov
Jan 2, 2015 at 4:04 pm
Mar 5, 2015 at 11:33 pm

18	[PHP-DEV] Use "caller" keyword, to access object caller.

The reason for creating circular references, usually due to the need to bind objects. But this relationship can often be obtained from the context of the call. It will be very convenient to have a ...

S.A.N
Jan 30, 2015 at 2:53 am
Feb 2, 2015 at 1:58 am

18	[RFC][Vote] Return Types

Dear Internals, I have moved the Return Types RFC[1] into voting phase. A few changes have happened since it was originally announced but have been covered by discussion. Return types are now ...

Levi Morrison
Jan 14, 2015 at 9:18 am
Jan 28, 2015 at 1:58 am

18	Class constructor behaviour

Hi, I've been going through some bug reports, and have found there are several bad behaviours related to class constructors that ought to be corrected, but could only be done at a major version. The ...

Dan Ackroyd
Jan 17, 2015 at 2:02 pm
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:37 pm

18	[BugFest] Feature request #38685: str_[i]replace(): Add support for (string needle, array replace)

Hi, I just created a PR for a feature request lying around since 2006 : https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/980 It adds support in str_replace() and str_ireplace() for the combination of (string ...

F & N Laupretre
Jan 5, 2015 at 5:15 pm
Jan 10, 2015 at 9:32 pm

16	Removing base class from session handler

Hi all, I would like to propose removal of SessionHandler object. PHP7 is perfect opportunity. Session module uses "previous save handler" as it's base class of SessionHandler object. e.g ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Jan 22, 2015 at 10:39 pm
Jan 25, 2015 at 7:47 am

16	in Operator

Hello, I'd like to propose a new feature to PHP: The in Operator Bob mentioned a few weeks ago he wants such an operator in PHP and today I stumbled over ...

Niklas Keller
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:45 am
Jan 23, 2015 at 2:58 pm

15	OpenSSL ext. improvements for authenticated cipher modes.

Hi list, A couple of bug reports have highlighted the fact that our openssl_encrypt and openssl_decrupt functions have no way of getting or setting tags required for authenticated cipher modes (i.e ...

Leigh
Jan 31, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Feb 2, 2015 at 4:09 pm

14	Proposal: Raise severity of undefined constants

Hi All, I would like to propose that the error given for an undefined constant should be raised from E_NOTICE, probably to E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR, in PHP 7. I'm happy to expand this into a proper RFC, ...

Rowan Collins
Jan 27, 2015 at 10:27 pm
Jan 28, 2015 at 5:28 pm

13	[PHP-DEV] Improvements to for-each implementation

Hi, this post is a fork of the "[PHP-DEV] Fixing strange foreach behavior" thread. It proposes a more efficient for-each mechanism (that does NOT change the conceptual behaviour). Currently on ...

Benjamin Coutu
Jan 22, 2015 at 8:33 am
Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 pm

13	[RFC] Vote results for default ctors RFC

Hi! The vote for RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/default_ctor has been concluded, with the result of 27 vs. 20. Since 2/3 majority is required for acceptance, the RFC has been declined. I am a bit ...

Stanislav Malyshev
Jan 25, 2015 at 8:07 am
Jan 27, 2015 at 9:15 am

13	PEAR and make install on master

Hi, so, the removal of deprecated features has started and make install is now rightfully failing because PEAR is installed by default, although it is not compatible anymore: Installing PEAR ...

Matteo Beccati
Jan 18, 2015 at 8:40 am
Jan 26, 2015 at 1:54 pm

13	[RFC] jsond

Hi, This rfc about replacing json with jsond is under discussion. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jsond I have finally done some benchmarks. You can find a link in the RFC. It's been extensively tested for ...

Jakub Zelenka
Jan 11, 2015 at 5:27 pm
Jan 18, 2015 at 4:40 pm

12	[VOTE] jsond

Hi All! Voting on jsond is now open: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jsond It's a simple Yes/No vote whether jsond should replace the current json extension in PHP 7. Cheers Jakub

Jakub Zelenka
Jan 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm
Feb 1, 2015 at 5:12 pm

12	[RFC] pecl_http

Hi! Now, that I'm mostly done with porting pecl/http [1] and dependencies (propro [2] and raphf [3]) to ZE3 I'd like to restart discussion on the topic, whether it is feasible to add pecl_http as a ...

Michael Wallner
Jan 22, 2015 at 4:32 pm
Jan 28, 2015 at 11:17 am

12	Inconsistencies in callable, call_user_func and direct variable calls

valid for call_user_func[_array] and callable type-hint but invalid for for direct variable calls: - string "MyClass::staticFunc" - string "self::staticFunc" - string "static::staticFunc" - string ...

Marc Bennewitz
Jan 20, 2015 at 8:54 pm
Jan 24, 2015 at 2:32 pm

12	[RFC][DISCUSSION] Removal of dead SAPIs and extensions

Hi, I think the research on https://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis_and_exts is now far enough to be discussed. So far I only could not test sapi/nsapi because it needs a SunOs/IPlanet. But ...

Anatol Belski
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Jan 21, 2015 at 3:44 am

12	[RFC] [VOTE] Preserve Fractional Part in JSON encode

I'd like to initiate a vote on this RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_preserve_fractional_part TLDR: this RFC would add a new json_encode option to preserve fractional part of float numbers when ...

Juan Basso
Jan 11, 2015 at 3:02 am
Jan 19, 2015 at 1:26 pm

12	Cleaning up dangling whitespace

Hi! The code in the PHP source repo has a lot of random dangling whitespace at the end of lines, which looks sloppy and produces some weird effects in diffs because some editors auto-clean it and ...

Stanislav Malyshev
Jan 5, 2015 at 10:59 pm
Jan 6, 2015 at 2:51 pm

11	[PHP-DEV] [RFC] Fix "foreach" behavior

Hi, I'd like to start discussion about fixing inconsistent "foreach" statement behavior. The implementation is almost done. It not only fixes inconsistencies in a defined by RFC way but also improves ...

Dmitry Stogov
Jan 30, 2015 at 7:23 am
Feb 1, 2015 at 12:34 pm

11	Fixing strange foreach behavior.

Hi all, Take a look at http://3v4l.org/HbVnd foreach should not affect internal(zval) array position, but it does. I'm not sure why foreach works this way, but HHVM behavior is reasonable. IMHO. PHP ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Jan 16, 2015 at 8:41 am
Jan 22, 2015 at 4:55 am

11	Broken apps

Despite of PEAR, I also found few other apps, from my usual test list, broken - Typo3, Xoops, SugarCRM. Magento is broken long time ago by "unified variable syntax". I'm really unhappy with this ...

Dmitry Stogov
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:49 am
Jan 19, 2015 at 7:42 pm

10	[PHP-DEV][RFC][DISCUSSION] Group Use Declarations

Hi, After a period of research along with part of the PHP community I'd like to present this RFC which aims to improve PHP namespaces. The RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/group_use_declarations Along ...

Marcio Almada
Jan 31, 2015 at 12:10 am
Feb 7, 2015 at 4:14 am

9	Enable error_handler callback parameters to be passed by reference

In userland it is sometimes necessary to extend PHP's notices/warnings with additional information (e.g. username from session, stack trace, etc.) I'm proposing to enable error_handler callback ...

Thomas Bley
Jan 21, 2015 at 4:39 am
Jan 31, 2015 at 5:40 pm

9	php7dev Vagrant box

As a follow-up to my PHP7 Homework post last week, here is a bit of spoon-feeding for all you lurkers on this list. https://atlas.hashicorp.com/rasmus/boxes/php7dev The description there should be ...

Rasmus Lerdorf
Jan 28, 2015 at 10:50 pm
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:05 pm

9	[RESULT] [RFC] PHP 5.7

Good evening, Normally I just reply to [VOTE] threads when a vote ends, but Pierre said making a separate thread in future would be a good idea, and I see no real harm in it. This way it’ll catch the ...

Andrea Faulds
Jan 8, 2015 at 8:28 pm
Jan 11, 2015 at 2:24 pm

9	[RFC] Add is_cacheable() stream-wrapper operation

Hi, I just wrote this RFC to propose a clean way for opcode caches to decide if a given URI is cacheable or not : https://wiki.php.net/rfc/streams-is-cacheable Please comment. Regards François

François Laupretre
Jan 4, 2015 at 1:36 am
Jan 5, 2015 at 5:17 pm

8	[PATCH] Check the return value of do_fstat() to avoid error conditions.

From: Joshua Rogers <<span class="m_body_email_addr" title="6002db74b4480c510297ffbd1fa2c18d" git@internot.info</span --- main/streams/plain_wrapper.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 ...

Joshua Rogers
Jan 15, 2015 at 8:04 am
Jan 27, 2015 at 4:10 am

8	Re: [PHP-CVS] com php-src: Fixes to unified stdint usage: ext/date/lib/timelib_structs.h main/php_stdint.h

Hi Derick, I've just fixed here http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f8d40ca79224900af6e93c8763412204bbfb8fd , please check. Regards Anatol

Anatol Belski
Jan 21, 2015 at 8:55 am
Jan 21, 2015 at 3:59 pm

8	[RFC] Parameter skipping, take 3

Hi! As I've got some questions on the topic, I'd like to revive and soon put to vote the parameter skipping RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/skipparams For those who doesn't remember, quick reminder - ...

Stanislav Malyshev
Jan 5, 2015 at 10:03 pm
Jan 6, 2015 at 7:53 pm

7	Is it a good idea to have a "strict" mode?

Hi! I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to have a `strict` mode in PHP. Many language have them and it is a good idea. I think it should be a bit different in PHP, it should encourage the ...

César Rodas
Jan 30, 2015 at 5:16 am
Jan 30, 2015 at 10:54 am

7	Use of {} with member.

Hi all, I came across with bug #68947 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68947 and realized small inconsistency. http://3v4l.org/ldZKl $obj- ${array[$key]}; // Syntax error $obj- {$array[$key]}; // ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Jan 29, 2015 at 9:33 pm
Jan 30, 2015 at 12:57 am

7	imagick on PHP 7 was Stepping stones to a working php7 ...

Imagick is now working on 7; you will need to use the PHP 7 branch from https://github.com/mkoppanen/imagick/tree/phpseven Opening any issues you might find on Github would probably get them resolved ...

Dan Ackroyd
Jan 26, 2015 at 5:58 pm
Jan 28, 2015 at 12:02 pm

7	User defined session serialize handler

Hi all, Session module has session serializer modules that serializes $_SESSION back and forth. Session serializer module can be defined by user if there is API for it. I would like to propose user ...

Yasuo Ohgaki
Jan 24, 2015 at 2:28 am
Jan 24, 2015 at 4:36 pm

7	PHP 5.5.21RC1 is ready for testing

Hello PHP 5.5.21 RC1 is available for testing. You can download it from https://downloads.php.net/~jpauli/ The Windows binaries are available at http://windows.php.net/qa/ This release contains a ...

Julien Pauli
Jan 8, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Jan 9, 2015 at 10:21 am

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