As a decreasingly "hardcore" php user, any and/or all items on Rasmus' wishlist would be welcome. However, to comment on two items....
The strpos/in_array argument swap is one of my greatest joys in PHP. It keeps it lively. So I did a quick grep of the manual for "needle/haystack" type functions, and came up with the following. Perhaps there are other functions that use different argument names that I missed. There are really only 3 functions (array_key_exists, array_search and in_array) that use "needle, haystack" and are out of step with the others that use "haystack, needle". ---------------------------------------------- array_key_exists ( mixed key, array search) array_search ( mixed needle, array haystack [, bool strict]) iconv_strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset [, string charset]]) iconv_strrpos ( string haystack, string needle [, string charset]) in_array ( mixed needle, array haystack [, bool strict]) mb_strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset [, string encoding]]) mb_strrpos ( string haystack, string needle [, string encoding]) mb_substr_count ( string haystack, string needle [, string encoding]) stripos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) stristr ( string haystack, string needle) strpbrk ( string haystack, string char_list) strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) strrchr ( string haystack, string needle) strripos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) strrpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) strstr ( string haystack, string needle) substr_count ( string haystack, string needle) ---------------------------------------------- My other great joy in PHP is the function naming (especially the str* family). Although I can actually remember which are str_* and which are str* (while I can NEVER remember the argument order of strpos), it would be nice to make naming consistent. So why are aliases (str_pos, str_tok, htmlentities_decode, etc.) out of the question? Indeed, I have a colleague who still uses mysql_numrows, mysql_fieldname and friends (of course, he also still runs PHP3 :). -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
