Re: [rfc] str_mask function
| From: | Jordi Kroon | Date: | Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:16:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [rfc] str_mask function | ||
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On 18 Sep 2026 at 18:43 -0400, Casper Langemeijer <langemeijer@php.net>, wrote:
> Not useful.
> Easily implemented in user-space.
> Performance would never be an issue for a function typically used on small strings a few times
> per request.
>
> In the multi-million-line web application I work on this probably would not be used even once.
>
> Greetings, Casper
This. I don’t see any reason why this should added. Its use-case is quite a niche, which can be
easily solved by calling substr_replace together with str_repeat.
If you want to go on with your idea, the string parameter of this function should have the
SensitiveParameter attribute or else it may end up in a backtrace.
Regards,
Jordi