PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone out and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've compiled a list of all of the suggestions I've received, they are listed below in a form that will hopefully make it easy for people to vote their yeys and nays. My hope that we can reach an agreement within 1-2 weeks so 5.3 can be branched and work on it can begin. List of Feature Ideas ---------------------------- 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6 1 0 -1 2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs 1 0 -1 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch 1 0 -1 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch 1 0 -1 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is already available) 1 0 -1 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes 1 0 -1 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) 1 0 -1 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 1 0 -1 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available) 1 0 -1 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED 1 0 -1 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch 1 0 -1 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch 1 0 -1 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli 1 0 -1 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by default) 1 0 -1 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch 1 0 -1 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess" style ini file support 1 0 -1 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6 1 0 -1 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic property creation 1 0 -1 Ilia Alshanetsky