[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Object-Caching and Reference Counting

2007-01-19 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi! Lars Schultz wrote: As you can see I boldly used the function reference_count(Object) even though it doesn't exist. This is exactly what I'd need to allow my concept to work. Some time ago I created a patch to implement a ref_count() function which works the way you suggested. But I'm

[PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces (was: PHP 5.1.0R5 Released)

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi! Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: Once again, I encourage everyone to take the time to try out this RC and test it against your code or simply run "make test". Works fine for me, but I've a question about the dropped curly braces. Has there been some public discussion about it recently? I'm sorry if

Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi Rasmus! Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Very few people converted to using {} so the argument about reading old code doesn't really hold. I can't belive that most of the code today is based on <=PHP3 code. I'm not talking about such "PHP3 based" code. I'm talking about code, you wrote 1 year ago

Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Andreas Korthaus wrote: But you know without understanding of any context, that it's the 6th character of the string "$str". When you see $var[5], it could be the 6th character of a string, or an element of an array... and what about the value? You can

Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: And you are willing to break just about every application out there for this? I didn't know how many applications use [] with strings. I only know a lot of applications using {}. The point is not "breaking existing apps", but destroy a sensable convention, which is us

Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-17 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi Andrei! Andrei Zmievski wrote: You will break many more scripts by dropping [] for strings than the other way around. Do you agree? Until tonight I was sure that only a few projects still use the [] syntax which is depreciated for 5 years. But if some of you don't think so I'm probably wr

Re: [PHP-DEV] dropping curly braces

2005-11-18 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Derick Rethans wrote: That's the problem - also grep does not know if [] is used for arrays or stings. That's the same for programmers, it's often not easy to conclude from context - that's my point. grep won't, but php -l will. That's true. But what about "reducing complexity"? Don't you t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Request for Threads or SRM

2005-11-24 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: That's way outside the scope of what we have planned for PHP 6 and I can pretty much guarantee it won't happen. The SRM-like thing doesn't need to be part of PHP though. Anybody can build such a beast. What about something like a "persistent superglobal"? The idea is

[PHP-DEV] native arbitrary precision datatype for PHP?

2006-03-28 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi Rasmus! Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: I ran some tests, and did the following: $Order_Total = sprintf("%01.20f",$Order_Total); $Refund_Amount = sprintf("%01.20f",$Refund_Amount); which produced: $Order_Total = 102.84431566 and$Refund_Amount = 102.85

Re: [PHP-DEV] native arbitrary precision datatype for PHP?

2006-03-28 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Leon Matthews schrieb: PS: will a 64 bit INTEGER make it into PHP6? But they're already here in fives-ville... I recently had a regression test failure on our framework when testing on the new AMD64 test server. The 'failed' test was expecting to see an error when dealing with UNIX epoch time

Re: [PHP-DEV] php 5.2.0

2006-05-02 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi! Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: So, if you have changes you'd like to see in 5.2 (don't go too wild now ;-) ), reply to this e-mail. Some issues not yet in the wiki, which have been discussed on this list some time ago: 1. date extension with OO interface and classname "Date" (don't forget abo

Re: [PHP-DEV] Memcache session handler

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi Glenn, Glenn Richmond wrote: This isn't actually part of the PECL project as I understand it. The PECL memcache project provides a PHP interface to using a memcache server. What I've developed is a memcache session handler that can be used via the php.ini file by: session.handler = memcache

[PHP-DEV] Re: PDO wiki

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi John! John Lim wrote: Are comments working on the wiki? I posted several, eg to http://oss.backendmedia.com/index.php?area=PDO&page=bindParam If comments don't work, perhaps you could edit the page and add your comment to the text? PS: I agree with you about your issues, eg. bindParam, DSN, e

[PHP-DEV] state of PHP5 support in APC

2005-04-15 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hello! Can someone tell me anything about the state of PHP5 support in APC? I have read some posts from last september where was statet "in a few weeks there will be PHP5 support " ;-) Today I tried to install a snapshot from CVS, to see if it works with PHP 5.0.3 on my Gentoo-Box. Seems if the

[PHP-DEV] Re: state of PHP5 support in APC

2005-04-15 Thread Andreas Korthaus
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[PHP-DEV] Re: pear package in 4.3.x releases

2005-04-26 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Greg Beaver wrote: Was the removal of most pear package in 4.3.11 intentional? Yes. Has this been announced somewhere? I did not see anything in ChangeLog and release notes. The only other change being considered for the future would be to make it easier to install PEAR by providing a single fil

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

2005-06-10 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi! Andi Gutmans wrote: > I'll roll PHP 5.1 Beta 1 tomorrow. Hopefully we will then start > getting some very much needed feedback from the public for HEAD. Will pecl_http be included? (AFAIR something like that has been discussed earlier this year on this list) I'm asking because it's such a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

2005-06-10 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Hi! Andi Gutmans wrote: I'll roll PHP 5.1 Beta 1 tomorrow. Hopefully we will then start getting some very much needed feedback from the public for HEAD. Will pecl_http be included? (AFAIR something like that has been discussed earlier this year on this list) I'm asking because it's such a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

2005-06-13 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Michael Wallner wrote: Will pecl_http be included? (AFAIR something like that has been discussed earlier this year on this list) Hm, I must have missed that... I cannot find it anymore, perhaps it only has been suggested... Anyway it's still far away from stable - just compare the count of

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

2005-06-13 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Derick Rethans wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Andreas Korthaus wrote: Will pecl_http be included? (AFAIR something like that has been discussed earlier this year on this list) We have the policy of not adding more very specialized extensions to the PHP core distribution - those extensions

[PHP-DEV] Re: Moving to PHP5.1 and Apache 2.2 next year, need help

2005-08-09 Thread Andreas Korthaus
steve roussey wrote: > The setup we are striving for is to keep connections open all the way down the chain to the database. Ideally this would mean that we would use Apache 2.2 with the event MPM to hold user connections. Then the PHP threads would ideally hold persistent connections to the da

[PHP-DEV] Re: Moving to PHP5.1 and Apache 2.2 next year, need help

2005-08-09 Thread Andreas Korthaus
steve roussey wrote: Someone else emailed me about using FastCGI with Apache 2.1/event but I just figured that there would be a significant slowdown using FastCGI rather than a module/handler. (Currently I compile PHP into Apache statically and turn off Apache's dynamic module loading ability --

[PHP-DEV] Re: ref fix revisited

2005-09-14 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: SquirrelMail has code like this all over the place: $value = strtolower(array_shift(split('/\w/',trim($value; Here array_shift() does of course change the arg, so that is a potential problem. And yes, that's a dumb way to do this, but people write code like this.

Re: [PHP-DEV] timezones & date() breakage

2005-09-28 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Derick Rethans wrote: [...], if you have any idea on how to make things better, please step forward. I already spoke with the doc folks how to document all the timezones that we now support. I've learned about the limitations of the old date/time functions some time ago, so I had to impleme

Re: [PHP-DEV] timezones & date() breakage

2005-09-28 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Lukas Smith wrote: I dont see a pressing need for an OO API and I also dont think that PHP internal API's should one by one be moved over to an OO interface either. IMO date is a very good example where a nice OO API is very useful - particularly for people with advanced needs of date/timezon

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist

2005-10-22 Thread Andreas Korthaus
Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf schrieb: Include an opcode cache by default. A lot of work has gone into pecl/apc recently, but I am not hung up on which one goes in. In case we include APC by default, it would be nice if its apc_store(