Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6 -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 > 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch 1 > 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch 1 > 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is already > available) 0 > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes -1 > 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO and > mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) Only 1 if it's optional, -1 otherwise > 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 1 > 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available) 0 > 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED 1 > 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch 0 > 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch 0 > 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli 0 > 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by default) 0 for adding it to core, -1 to enable it by default > 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch 0 > 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess" style > ini file support 0 > 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6 1 > 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic property > creation 1 -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org