Re: Transparent SID support

I think it would be a very bad idea to change this in any minor version. Speaking from a purely public point of view (as someone who sits in php help channels on IRC for most of his working day)... When register_globals was defaulted to off there was mass confusion as to why their scripts didnt work. This isnt because there wasnt the information, this isnt because it wasnt documented. This is because people dont RTFM and dont think. They just think "arg it doesnt work, php is broken". Firstly, changing another default as major as transid (many websites I know use this feature without checking) will break alot of sites where the admins dont read the upgrade notes, causing the same panic as before. Secondly, it will emmit the impression that PHP is changing its fundamental settings and they will come to expect that upgrading will be backwardly incompatable... although we all (on this list - I hope) know that it IS bc, but you have to just open your eyes to work out the switches to flip. BTW: I do like the idea of it being switched off - Im just not sure how to do it without panicing the peons... if done in a bug-release then they certainly wont expect it. Most of them dont read the README at all (let alone any file called UPGRADING) and if they do its only when upgrading PHP vX.Y.Z when X is changing, or Y is changing significantly. PS: Just playing devils advocate - and believe me, all the people who complained about the register globals changing BEFORE reading the docs ARE devil spawn and the bane of my existance heh ... no offence intended ;) > My thoughts exactly. Any other input on that? > Zeev > >> > - Transparent sid support is now disabled by default. (Yasuo) >> > >> > I haven't followed the trans-sid discussion closely, but did we >> decide to change the behavior within a bug-fix release?? >> >>AFAIK this was not discussed, but IMO it's a bad idea to change this in >> a bug-fix release. -- Dan Hardiker [dhardiker@staff.firstcreative.net] ADAM Software & Systems Engineer First Creative Ltd