Re: Convert deprecated POSIX functions into wrappers for equivalent PCRE functions

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Tony Marston <tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk> wrote: > "It is for the better"? How can you justify that? It is a problem that will > cause a lot of headaches for a lot of users, yet the solution which I have > proposed will remove that problem with only very little effort, yet still > leave only one regex engine which has to be supported in PHP 6. > > You have to balance out the small bit of effort required in implementing > this solution against the huge amount of effort required in changing > thousands, if not millions of scripts. > > For the PHP developers to say "we can't be bothered to update the POSIX > functions to deal with unicode, so we've decided to drop them from PHP > entirely even though it will break lots of scripts" will not go down well in > userland. > > > -- > Tony Marston > http://www.tonymarston.net > http://www.radicore.org > > "John Black" <spam@network-technologies.org> wrote in message > news:4AF70120.1040209@network-technologies.org... >> The same can be said about the removal of magic_quotes(), it will break A >> LOT of old scripts. >> I am in the same boat, I did not keep up to date with the PHP developer >> plans and just found out about ereg when I installed PHP 5.3. >> >> I think it was handled properly by displaying warning messages before >> actually removing it. It will give people enough time to update their >> scripts or weed out the old and insecure scripts. >> >> Yes, it will create some headache but, AFAIK, it is for the better. >> >> -- >> John >> Intelligent Life >> http://xkcd.com/638/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > The plan, as far as I am aware, is to move POSIX regular expressions into PECL as of PHP6. If you can fix your scripts by simply running "pecl install ereg" what's all the hee-hawing about?