Re: Complete case-sensitivity in PHP

On 2012-04-20, "C.Koy" <can5koy@gmail.com> wrote: > This post is about bug #18556 (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18556) > which is a decade old. > > As the recent comments on that page indicate, there's not a > deterministic way to resolve this issue, apart from eliminating > tolower() calls for function/class names during lookup. Hence totally > case-sensitive PHP. > > Before opposing with "No, this will break a lot of existing code!", > note that I'm not suggesting a static permanent change in the engine; > rather a runtime option that will need to be enabled (cli option, INI > setting), without which PHP will work as before. > > Since I'm not well versed in the workings of Zend engine, I solicit > the wisdom/experience of people in this list: Is this doable in a > practical way, without making grand changes in Zend? It's not just about changes to the engine. If you introduce a runtime option that switches behavior, you then get a portability problem -- code runs fine in one context, but not the other. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matthew@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc