Re: Discussion about new Curl URL API and ext/curl improvements

Hi Sara > This is so bizarre, I *know* I wrote an OOPified cURL extension some years > ago (called it curli), and now I can't find it anywhere. What universe am > I even in? > I don't know but if you pass through the parallel universe where Curli is, I'm interested. > > Anyway, +1 on making a whole new OOPified cURL implementation. $ch = > (new CurlHandle($uri))->setOpt(Curl::OPT_METHOD, 'post')->perform(); > Let it throw exceptions, do proper type checks, all the goodness. Let the > procedural APIs behave differently than the object methods and that's okay. > > cURL is a foundational extension in PHP and I respect the choices that > were made in its API design, but it's 2022, and we deserve a better > ext/curl. > I hope you don't mind, I took some of your code from your "Enable strict_types checking for curl_setopt()" pull request [1] to do some test on introducing this but only on the OOP API. It's working very well [2]. Can I know why this PR was closed ? Any issues ? Or was it more because it was too much of a change for the procedural API ? Thanks Pierrick [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2495 [2] https://github.com/adoy/php-src/pull/2