#23026 [Opn->Bgs]: Make Zend case-sensitive (classes, functions, remove case-insensitive)

ID: 23026 Updated by: john@php.net Reported By: mfischer@php.net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Any PHP Version: 5CVS-2003-04-02 (dev) New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-02 15:08:03] mfischer@php.net Keep subject for bugdb searching. Make Zend case-sensitive (and therefore PHP) in regards to namesapces, classes, functions. Basically everything which is currently str_tolower()d inside the engine. This is just a meta-bug to keep track of suggestions to this topic. A big "NO" is to make such a thing php.ini dependant ("Not yet another switch") but truly case-sensitive. For a start our great Hero[tm] Andrei has made a patch some time ago against ZE2 to achive this goal (see http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/ ). It doesn't apply cleanly to current HEAD but given the patch size it should be trivial to get it working. The big "contra" many people are concerned is BC (backwards compatibility). Yes, face it. Changing this behaviour will definitely break millions of scripts. I'm having bad dreams remembering reading code like $db = MySQL_Connect (and therefore failing my search for it with 'grep mysql_connect *' because I was to lazy about three extra characters ;). Also see (bogusified) bug http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15415 for a VOTE on this issue. Ok, there we go :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23026&edit=1