Re: Bugs database

From:	Zak Greant	Date:	Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:46:07 +0000
Subject:	Re: Bugs database
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At 05:19 PM 7/20/00 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:

Guys, Although everyone seems to be busy discussing new features they want in PHP 4. please take a quick look at the bugs database. There are over 800! open bug reports. It would be really great if in the next few weeks php-dev could focus more on those and less on new features. I think a lot of those bug reports aren't bogus and probably aren't too hard to fix but it needs to be a group effort because non of us has enough time/strength to close a big amount ourselves. I really think it is more important to stabilize PHP 4 as much as possible right now and not to implement new features. We can still talk about new features but it seems to me that most of the energy is going towards new code when the old code is still not bug free.

Sounds good to me - I will recheck the status on the bugs that I have already evaluated and close whatever I can. I have attached a list of the bugs so that people can see what I am working on. Also, I have broken the open bugs for 4.0 into 23 packages of about 30 reports each. The bugs reports in these packages are not related or grouped - they are simply there so that we can each grab a distinct group of reports and clear as many bugs out from it as possible. The bugs page should be accessible at http://qa.php.net/bugs.php in a few minutes. If people could step forward grab a package of bugs to work on, that would be fantastic. Don't worry about closing every bug - just close what you can and move on. Please let the php-qa list know what bugs you have closed or updated - or - if you do not have CVS access, what bugs you think can be closed or updated. I will update the bugs page as people close bugs. If anyone has any comments, criticisms or suggestions please let me know. I think that this should be the fastest way to clear out bugs - or at least the fastest way to clear out the simple bugs. :)

<a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=3256" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 3256</a> {} symbols in serialized data not being properly escaped. Would require code change to fix. Can be worked around by passing text data to be serialized to the rawurlencode function. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=3261" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 3261</a> As I understand it, the global keyword ties a locally scoped variable to a globally scoped variable with the same name. Even though they share values, they are not the same value. Use the GLOBALS array instead. i.e. session_register("GLOBALS[count]"); - this will register the right value. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=3730" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 3730</a> Zeev got it - waiting for user feedback <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=3749" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 3749</a> Misunderstanding of how php works. Need to contact user. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4081" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4081</a> Cannot close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4082" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4082</a> PHP does not work with MicroWeb Server, v1.14 Cannot close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4199" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4199</a> Need to contact user. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4223" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4223</a> Cannot close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4251" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4251</a> Cannot close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4278" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4278</a> Andrei has contacted user. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4286" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4286</a> Cannot close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4377" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4377</a> Need to contact user and see if problem occurs beyond 4.0 rc2 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4493" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4493</a> Stas has commented. Need to contact user and see if problem occurs beyond 4.0 rc2 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4551" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4551</a> Advise user to change code or request feature. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4600" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4600</a> User Error - did not understand install docs Contact user - ensure that they are running PWS... <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4613" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4613</a> Contact user - perhaps their ini file is not being read? <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4643" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4643</a> Most likely user error Contact user for additional details... <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4756" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4756</a> Assigned. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4898" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4898</a> Fixed in later releases. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=4944" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 4944</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5076" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5076</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5100" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5100</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5123" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5123</a> Needs to be fixed in php source. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5150" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5150</a> Not a bug. Needs to fix Apache config. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5153" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5153</a> Feature request... <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5185" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5185</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5263" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5263</a> Stas has contacted user <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5268" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5268</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5339" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5339</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5372" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5372</a> Empty report - should be deleted - or - user should be contacted for more information. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5375" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5375</a> Cannot close... <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5404" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5404</a> Joey and Stas have commented. Status should be updated. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5475" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5475</a> Confirmed. Trivial fix. Needs to be assigned. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5489" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5489</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5492" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5492</a> Need to contact user. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5500" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5500</a> Not a bug. User sets php.ini precision directive beyond bounds of type. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5528" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5528</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5540" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5540</a> Looks like there is a bug. Sample code works under apache/win98/php4.01pl2 <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5541" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5541</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5546" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5546</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5549" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5549</a> Can't close. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5550" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5550</a> Logical errors in user script. User needs to change contents of else statement to: foreach ($todel as $key => $value) echo"$key - todel = ".$todel[$key]." "; <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5555" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5555</a> Contact user for more details. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5557" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5557</a> Sounds like a configuration problem. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5568" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5568</a> Contact user for more details - using wrong function name. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5581" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5581</a> New behaviour - not bug afaik <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5600" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5600</a> documentation problem <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5602" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5602</a> Ensure that track_vars is set and right ini file is being read. Ask user for php_info output. <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5606" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5606</a> Misconception. AFAIK this behaviour never worked. Functions can be defined as: function foo () {     //... } and then called as: foo (1,3,12341243,42); <a href="http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=5607" TARGET="BUGS">Bug 5607</a> Looks like syntax error. Ask user for exact script.