Req #46503 [Opn->Sus]: PCRE objects in addition to the existing functions

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46503&edit=1 ID: 46503 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: glideraerobatics at hotmail dot com Summary: PCRE objects in addition to the existing functions -Status: Open +Status: Suspended Type: Feature/Change Request Package: PCRE related PHP Version: 5.2.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: ext/pcre already caches compiled patterns, but clearly, an OOP API would have further advantages. However, the details of that API would need to be layed out and discussed as an RFC. Feel free to start the RFC process[1]. For the time being, I'm suspending this ticket. [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-11-06 13:23:19] glideraerobatics at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ Most (if not all) other languages (such as javascript, Perl using the qr// operator) that support PCRE regular expressions have some means of creating pre-compiled PCRE objects. These are very useful in that these objects can be passed around inside an application into functions that require a valid regular expression as argument. Using a PCRE object, these functions just have use the 'instance of' operator in order to make sure that the arguments are of the correct type. Pre-compiled PCRE objects can also boost performance in the sense that the expression is compiled once where needed, used one or more times and then disposed of. Sounds similar to how SQL statements are or should be used. I assume that PHP currently compiles and caches string type regular expressions internally so in that case the only performance advantage will be the disposing of the unused regexp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46503&edit=1