Re: Feedback on state of some PHP extensions, functions, etc.

On 12.06.2019 at 17:32, G. P. B. wrote: > I've been going through the documentation again to remove mentions of PHP 4 > and found some extensions, functions, etc. on which I'd like to know the > state of them and if it would be wise to deprecate them. > > I know I've thrown in some function aliases again, but only those which I > think wouldn't have widespread usage. If those should still be kept in your > opinion please let me know. > > The list are more rough notes that I took while reading the doc so if > something seems unclear let me know. > > > - The FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH constant in the Filesystem extension being > an integer makes it unusable with strict types for file_get_contents() [6] > however it is also used for a flag argument where it can be combined with > other constants with a binary OR [7] [8]. > Should this be just considered a Doc Bug? I don't think there's still a bug in the docs regarding FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH. See the respective note for the $use_include_path parameter. > - Unbundle the NSAPI Extension (if this is already the case, there is > doc error in the membership state of the extension) as it seems obsolete in > this day and age as it handles Sun/Netscape servers [24] The NSAPI is removed as of PHP 7.0.0, so the docs should be fixed. > - Unbundle the XML-RPC extension as it is considered experimental [25] I wouldn't unbundle ext/xmlrpc because it is documented as being experimental, but rather because nobody really looks after it, we're bundling a modified ancient version of libxmlrpc, and even the upstream libxmlrpc-epi isn't maintained for years. Thanks, Christoph > [6] > https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php > [7] > https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php > [8] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php > [24] https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.nsapi.php > [25] https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.xmlrpc.php