Re: [php6] accepting an ascii string only
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Mon, 15 May 2006 21:19:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [php6] accepting an ascii string only | ||
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That assumes there are a hundred places where you want to receive an ASCII string. Are they really that prevalent?
-Andrei
On May 15, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Nuno Lopes wrote:
Sorry for the delay.
But I think that a new type specifier could be introduced. If not you are saying to extensions writers to duplicate the code below a hundred times:
if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "t", &name, &name_len, &name_type) == FAILURE) {
return;
}
if (name_type == IS_UNICODE) {
buf = zend_unicode_to_ascii(name, name_len TSRMLS_CC);
if (buf == NULL) {
php_error(E_WARNING, "my_var has to consist only of ASCII characters");
RETURN_FALSE;
}
} else {
buf = (char *) name;
}
With a new specifier you would be sure that the string you received was ASCII-only and wouldn't have to care with conversions and such.