Re: Throwing E_DEPRECATED on startup

2009/4/22 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net>: > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 20:06 +0100, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: >> I'd like to propose a change for when PHP starts to throw an >> E_DEPRECATED notice for each of the deprecated ini directives (such as >> register_globals, safe_mode ect.) like in HEAD where they just throw a >> warning (more about that below). I have attached a patch for this in >> 5.3 (which is the only branch this patch really relates to). > > Yeah. > > Good thing to notice the user of bad configuration. I'm wondering a bit > how we can educate people about magic_quotes_gpc ... people who blindly > disable them probably break stuff which is "secure" by accident. This is > not only relevant to this patch though. The best idea I have is a clear > pointer to the docs from the message ... There are couple of issues with throwing errors at startup: 1) They are thrown so damn early that the user will never see them 2) run-tests.php gets very confused and starts expecting HTTP headers in the EXPECT section If we could delay the checks until after php_module_startup().. -Hannes