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

That's an amateur fudge, not a professional fix. Besides, what happens if your hosting company won't let you install PECL extensions? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org "Eddie Drapkin" <oorza2k5@gmail.com> wrote in message news:68de37340911081209p45577d46r70a3c194f1079510@mail.gmail.com... > 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?