Re: Suggestions for the next php

Hello, Vincent Stoessel wrote: > > I would love to see a decent debugger like perl has. > Nothing is more frustrating then having to echo and die() > to debug code. Especially when you are assigned the task of > updating code from a developer that has long gone without > leaving any documentation. PHP has a built-in debugger support. You can single-step, put break-points, watch variables, etc... from many several existing debugger GUI . > > I have been a PHP user since version 3.0 came out, and have seen it > > develop a lot along the way, but theres some things I find it lacks that > > it really should not. If people agree, I'll glady contribute to the PHP > > codebase. > > > > For example, multi-threading. Looking at the PHP sources, I can see this > > would be fairly easy to implement on some most server modules. Before I > > get fried by people for suggesting this, I know there are many functions > > that are not thread safe, such the ob_* functions. But as far as I can > > see threading would be well suited to some PHP tasks... You can use the pcntl extension if you are using any (fork capable) Unix. Regards, Manuel Lemos