RE: [PHP-DEV] Is fgetss() useless?
| From: | Christian Stoller | Date: | Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:50:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Is fgetss() useless? | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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From: Maciej Sobaczewski [mailto:msobaczewski@gmail.com]
>
> so... fgetss(). We have such a beautiful function in PHP. As it's
> described in the manual: "Get line from file pointer and strip HTML
> tags". I'm wondering if it has any differences/advantages over using
> just strip_tags(fgets($stream)).
>
> I'm going to write an RFC proposing deprecation and then removal of it,
> but first I want to ensure that this function is as useless (IMHO) as I
> think.
>
> Best regards,
> Maciej.
I like this proposal as I think that the number of different
functions available for file reading is confusing for newcomers (at least it was for me, when I
started with PHP ;-).