cvs: php4 / NEWS

jason Wed Mar 6 19:13:28 2002 EDT Modified files: /php4 NEWS Log: Add news entries representing the sockets rework. #I had a hard time with the style due to the number of entries #Feel free to make any changes Index: php4/NEWS diff -u php4/NEWS:1.886 php4/NEWS:1.887 --- php4/NEWS:1.886 Wed Mar 6 17:26:46 2002 +++ php4/NEWS Wed Mar 6 19:13:27 2002 @@ -1,6 +1,20 @@ PHP 4 NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? 2002, Version 4.2.0 +- Introduced major modifications to the Sockets Extension and its API (Jason): + . Fixed numerous bugs. + . Added automatic host lookup capability to all functions that take addr's + . ex. socket_connect($sock, 'www.yahoo.com', 80); + . Corrected and standardized host lookup errors + . Modified socket_recv() behavior. [$r=socket_recv($sock, $buf, $len, $flags)] + . Added socket_set_block() which changes a socket into blocking IO mode + . Modified socket_last_error() to not clear the last error + . Added socket_clear_error() which clears the last error on a socket + . Removed all code pertaining to fd_sets (socket_fd_*) + . Modfied/Improved socket_select() to take resource arrays instead of fd_sets + ex. <?php $wfds=$rfds=array($sock1, $sock2, $sock3, $sock7); + $r=socket_select($rfds, $wfds, NULL, 1); + print "Ready to read:\n"; var_dump($rfds); ?> - Returned iconv support to FreeBSD (kalowsky) - Added CLI (command line intrerface) sapi based on a cut-down version of the CGI sapi which is more suited for writing shell scripts. Some of