Re: PHP 5.3.8 Released!

Hi Alan, the breakage is about is_a with a string as 1st argument, not is_a as a whole. So yes, it breaks is_a alone is used as validation. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:38 PM, alan@akbkhome.com <alan@akbkhome.com> wrote: > " If it's a clear bug, which IMHO this is_a() issue was - then unless we're > looking at code breakage at massive scale, it should be fixed. " > > mmh.. how much breakage did you want. > > PEAR::isError is basically is_a($input, 'PEAR_Error'); it's been like that > for > 8 years.... > > google search for PEAR::isError shows 16,600 matches.. > > > http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=PEAR::isError%20lang:php&type=cs > > <http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=PEAR::isError%20lang:php&type=cs> > > for is_a you get 149K. and this is only public code... > > It's big... Luckily quite a few people are on holiday this month and will > not upgrade too soon. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org