Re: Dev List Summary

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Zak Greant wrote: > Hey All, > > It is pretty awesome to see PHP 4.1.0 roll out the door - shame that I > missed it. I ended up being mostly offline with technical troubles. :( > > Anyhoo, here is the Dev list summary for this week. This is basically > just a text version of what I worked up Zend. Feedback and corrections > are welcome as always. I will work on the CVS list summary tomorrow. > > > ------ > > > BUG/TLK: Over the last few weeks there have been a series of > discussions about how PHP de-allocates memory. While there have been no > resolutions yet, you can follow the discussion at: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100651165900001&r=1&w=2 > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13437 > > > REQ: A user has requested that existing persistent database connections > be closed when the maximum number of persistent connections have been > opened. PHP Dev regular Yasuo Ohgaki is looking into the request. To > follow the progress of this request, visit > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13463 > > > BUG: A user has noticed that PHP's transparent session id propogation > feature rewrites XHTML-compliant forms improperly. See > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13472 > > > FIX: The fix implemented for bug 6755 prevented PHP from compiling on > the AIX platform. The fix has been fixed, allowing PHP to properly > compile on AIX for the new PHP 4.1.0 release. > > > FIX: Dan Kalowsky fixed a bug that prevented odbc_error() from > returning the proper error code in certain situations. The fix should > appear in PHP 4.0.2 PHP 4.2.0, even Dan can't fix bugs in old releases :) > FIX: Thies Arntzen corrected a bug in imap_rfc822_parse_adrlist() > (Yep, that is the real name of the function :) where the function was > modifying the first argument passed to it. Thanks to Philip Steeman for > discovering and reporting the bug. > > > NEW: Yasuo Ohgaki wrote ob_get_level - a small function to returns the > current level of output buffering nesting. Derick Rethans cleaned and > committed the function, and then added documentation for it. The > function should appear in PHP 4.0.2. Visit Again, I can't do magic either: 4.2.0 > http://www.php.net/ob_get_level for mor information. It's more information, not mor > > > TLK: There was a short discussion on splitting the PHP Dev list into a > bunch of smaller, more specialized lists. As has happened with previous > discussions on the topic, it was decided that the list should stay > whole - despite the high volume of traffic. > > > REQ: Thomas Frössman has suggested an improvement on how PHP generates > random numbers for session ids numbers on Windows platforms. As of yet, > the suggestion seems to have gone unnoticed. To follow any possible > discussion, see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100749391700002&r=1&w=2 > > > TLK: There were several discussions about template systems and PHP. The > discussions got a bit nasty at times - who knew that templates could be > such a touchy subject. ;) > > > NEW: Earlier this year, a user requested a pg_cancel() function that > would allow them to stop long running Postgres database queries. Yasuo > Okgaki has started on a basic implementation of the user's request. He > is currently waiting for feedback from another developer before > proceeding further. See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=9273 for > more > details > > > FIX: Zeev Suraski improved the handling of error situations for > unbuffered MySQL queries in PHP. It is actually a bug in the mysql_client library... which will be fixed in the upcoming MySQL release. > > > TLK: A discussion on the behavior of exit() was revived when one of the > PHP Dev regulars re-encountered an odd behavior of the construct. The > discussion centers around exit's behavior of sending integer return > values to stdout in addition to setting them as an exit status in the > shell. For more information on this > discussion (and the discussions that preceded it), visit: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=99048980400003&r=1&w=2 > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100170293000002&w=4&r=1 > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=99539268507735&w=4 > > > NEW: Benjamin Yates has provided a patch for the socket extension that > improves how the extension deals with and reports errors. Thies Arntzen > is reviewing the patch and, barring any problems, plans to integrate it. > > > REQ: A user has requested that support for SNMP version 3 be integrated > into PHP 4. No one has responded as of yet - to follow any further > developments, visit > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?w=4&r=1&s=snmpv3+for+php4+and+later+&q=t > > > TLK: Rui Hirokawa has made an interesting proposal for improving and > extending PHP's handling of GET/POST/Cookie (GPC) data. He suggests > that user's be able to define handlers that filter, check or otherwise > manipulate data from GPC sources. To follow response to Rui's proposal, > visit > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100789136000059&r=1&w=4 You might want to mention this too (shameless plug :): - Added var_export, which shows a representation of a variable, much like var_dump, but in such a way you can use it as PHP code. regards, Derick