RE: [PHP-DEV] Exposing object handles to userland

Hi Nicolas, Have you checked the impact of changing the existing function? Like https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93 <https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=spl_object_hash> &q=spl_object_hash https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/Cloner/VarCloner.php https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/imp/lib/Factory/MimeViewer.php https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/framework/Support/lib/Horde/Support/Randomid.php https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/plugin.php Obviously there will be more. Seems some stuff even depends on the exact output. So it would be most likely a BC break. Now, I’d see this more like a feature request, as Julien was mentioning another function at the start. But IMHO opinions from people specializing on test/debug user land tools would give a better sight, so CC’ing. Regards Anatol From: nicolas.grekas@gmail.com [mailto:nicolas.grekas@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas Grekas Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:53 PM To: Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> Cc: PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Exposing object handles to userland I also know people that print_r($an_object) and parse the output just to extract the object handle from there... Crazy isn't it ? I plead guilty for doing this, but php let me no better choice for now ;) The attached patch removes the XOR hashing for the object handle (it's useless, the "secret" is trivially guessed after parsing the output of var_dump). It would be awesome if this patch could be applied for php 7.0! Cheers, Nicolas