Re: PHP 5.3.0RC4

On 21.06.2009, at 09:51, Lester Caine wrote:

Johannes Schlüter wrote:

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 07:49 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:

While I know that ... - All ereg functions are deprecated and emit E_DEPRECATED errors. Use PCRE (preg_*()) instead. ... is accurate, I think a little more detail would help here, since many of us probably did not know that 'split' was an ereg function - for instance?

hm, the las version on the wiki listed them ... In general: I'd like if people could come up with more details and add them to the docs. (See Rasmus's mail) So that this file is as short as i makes sense so people have a chance to be aware of as much contents as possible - and isn't scared away.

I was probably looking more for pointers to some extra information. Part of the problem here is that the warnings are being thrown in code that *I* did not write, so then one either has to search for updated versions of a library or work out how to fix them yourself - where I'd 'borrowed' the code originally. Simply hiding E_DEPRECATED is likely to lead to even bigger blowups later? :(

Actually E_DEPRECATED is only something you should enable temporarily. Then you can alert either your own team, or the project who's code you are using and move on. It simply tells you that the code will break with the next major version. This is not an end of world fatal error. regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org