Re: PHP_Func

Aidan Lister wrote:

beyond that I think there are several functions I have tried to get into internals@ which I need over and over again in my PEAR modules: like being able to merge multi dimensional arrays

http://backendmedia.com/php_patches/array_merge_clobber.phps

figure out if a file is includeable or not.

http://www.ircphp.com/users/imho/?file=function.file_exists_incpath.php

actually all of these are bad examples as they would be better implemented in C. however some things can be done sufficiently fast in php itself but are still often required. actually it seems that serialize() can be done quicker in PHP then the current implementation provided in C :-)

(http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week179.php) So is that a Nay?

no this was a yes .. all I am saying: BC stuff needs to be accessable the same way as what it tries to emulate (obviously). All frequently used but not yet available functions fall into 2 categories: 1) should be implemented in C 2) can be nicely implemented in PHP or is just too specific to be useful for the PHP distro It would be nice to have a set of classes/functions in separate file organized in some way for 2). regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07