Re: Magic quotes in trunk

On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > Yes. We have to get rid of them! I was +1 for the old PHP 6 as that > breaks so much stuff that it is nowhere a drop in replacement. And as > such I'm happy to drop it in any release breaking lots of applications. > I'm not happy about dropping it in a version which is a drop-in > replacement in most cases. (count the BC breaks in trunk right now ..) UPGRADING file is quite long. And dropping register_globals, safe_mode, etc. quite likely breaks something? :) > One way might be dropping the old mysql extension. Then "everybody" has > to learn something else and while learning about that /might/ be reached > with further education. Very good idea, move ext/mysql to PECL today? I think most applications (Wordpress, etc.) nowadays don't rely on magic_quotes_* or have done the usual magic to disable it anyway. So IMO, remove them in trunk and release it as something else than 5.4. :) --Jani