Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, Kamil Tekiela wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 21:58 Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> wrote: > > > Some should be non-controversial, others a bit more. If such, they > > might warrant their own dedicated RFC, or be dropped from the > > proposal altogether. > > ext/filter deprecations > > As much as I hate this extension, I don't think deprecating these > functions is the right choice. It's not unheard of for someone to use > filter_input without the filter parameter to avoid getting the warning > on missing value. See the top comment on > https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filter-input.php#115086 > > Maybe we should just unbundle that whole extension? Certainly not. It has been the recommended way of accepting incoming request variables since whenever we removed magic quotes. cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Author of Xdebug. Like it? Consider supporting me: https://xdebug.org/support mastodon: @derickr@phpc.social @xdebug@phpc.social