Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.4
| From: | Gina P. Banyard | Date: | Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:51:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.4 | ||
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On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 at 19:06, Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> wrote:
> strtok()
> =====
> strtok() is found 35k times in GitHub:
>
>>
>> https://github.com/search?q=md5%28+language%3APHP+&type=code
>
> It is a commonly used as a "left part of string up to a character" in addition to its
> intended use for tokenizing.
>
> I would prefer not deprecated because of BC breakage, but IF it is deprecated I would suggest
> adding a one-for-one replacement function for the "left part of string up to a character"
> use-case; maybe
str_left("abc.txt",".")
> returning "abc".
For this exact case of extracting a file name without an extension, you should really just use:
pathinfo
(
$filepath
, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
But for something more generic, you can just do:
explode($delimiter, $str)[0];
So I really don't see why we would need an "str_left()" function.
Best regards,
Gina P. Banyard