[PHP-DEV] Upgrade notes for PHP 5.1 - final draft

2005-11-19 Thread Steph Fox
Guys and guyess, Hopefully this is the final version of the upgrade notes. Please could you scroll through it (particularly if you've been involved in developing any of the affected areas) and get back to me ASAP if you find any misconceptions, missing information about changes that will affect

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrade notes for PHP 5.1 - final draft

2005-11-19 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Steph, you forgot to mention the change in inheritance rules that affected the way interface ArrayAccess can be used. Due to a missing check in our inheritance rules 5.0.* series allowed to introduce return by reference in derived classes. Thus it was possible to implement

Re: [PHP-DEV] sha256(), sha256_file(), and other hashing algos

2005-11-19 Thread Markus Fischer
Hi, I'm missing the functionality to get a list of registered hash functions so one can probe whether a certain hash function is available or not. - Markus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-19 Thread Roman Ivanov
Christian Schneider wrote: Please think twice before breaking BC light-heartedly. Please brake BC completely, and rename everything, and reorder arguments, and replace array() with a(), and replace $this- with something consise, and replace '-' with '.', and replace '.' with '~'. *smiley*

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrade notes for PHP 5.1 - final draft

2005-11-19 Thread Wez Furlong
There is no pecl/phpscript, it's pecl/activescript. I'm still wary of sending too strong a message about adopting PDO in this release; there are almost certainly some features missing from PDO that are present in the traditional drivers. This feature gap will get smaller after the 5.1 release is

Re: [PHP-DEV] sha256(), sha256_file(), and other hashing algos

2005-11-19 Thread Sara Golemon
I'm missing the functionality to get a list of registered hash functions so one can probe whether a certain hash function is available or not. There is now :) array hash_algos(void) Returns numerically indexed array of hashing engine names. And just incase anyone missed it. The proto for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading php

2005-11-19 Thread Eric Coleman
What about using http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CompatInfo as a basis? It seemed to do a pretty good job last time I ran it... - Eric -- Eric Coleman http://aplosmedia.com home: 412 399 1024 cell: 412 779 5176 On Nov 18, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote: Yep that's definitely a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading php

2005-11-19 Thread Steph Fox
Current release: 1.0.0 (stable) was released on 2005-03-15 That means it's not up to date enough to help with 5.0 - 5.1 upgrades... - Original Message - From: Eric Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jani Taskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrade notes for PHP 5.1 - final draft

2005-11-19 Thread Steph Fox
OK, thanks for that Wez, I'll tone it down another notch. But http://pecl.php.net/package/PHPScript works, and http://pecl.php.net/package/activescript definitively does not, so I think I'd better stay with what the PECL db knows rather than with what CVS knows no? (Or just put an extra note

Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading php

2005-11-19 Thread Eric Coleman
Im aware of that, but my thinking was to add the things in for that Maybe Davey will be willing, or I could give it a shot and see. -- Eric Coleman http://aplosmedia.com home: 412 399 1024 cell: 412 779 5176 On Nov 19, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Steph Fox wrote: Current release: 1.0.0