Re: CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken

On 2/10/25 11:14 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 3:24 PM, Niels Dossche wrote: >> Hi internals >> >> We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740) >> that the -z command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't >> actually work. >> This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line >> argument. >> However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP >> will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality >> it never loaded properly. >> I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a >> clean solution isn't straight-forward. >> Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least >> PHP 5.5, a long time. >> As passing -d zend_extension=foo on the command line is >> already a >> suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the -z >> option in PHP >> 8.5 instead of fixing it. >> >> Are there any objections against this? Please let us know. >> >> Kind regards >> Niels > > Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed? > > --Larry Garfield Hi Just to clarify: the -d option just sets an ini option. One idea could be to make -z print out a message telling the user to use "-d zend_extension=...". That would make the transition more "gradual". OTOH this didn't work for ages so nobody realistically relies on this option. Kind regards Niels