Mark Krenz wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:55:25PM GMT, Carl P. Corliss [rabb...@gmail.com]
said the following:
Code Search of: "eregi?(_replace)?\( lang:php" shows ~123,000 results
Code Search of:
"preg_(filter|grep|last_error|match_all|match|quote|replace_callback|replace|split)\(
lang:php" shows ~374,000 results
Looks like preg_* functions are used more often than ereg* functions to
me...
I think everyone should read this as it will prove my point.
Especially book #9
I have a O'Reilly Safari Books Online account and can search the
content of many of the latest books, which I consider something more
official than just doing a causual Google search, which can be
misleading.
The number 1 selling book on Amazon in the PHP category is "PHP and
MySQL Web Development" (4th Edition) from 2008 by Luke Welling and
Laura Thomson.
There is no mention of preg_match and the book instead shows how to
use ereg based functions. In fact, they do mention PCRE, but downplay
it by saying that POSIX regexs are easier to use.
I think any intelligent person would see this as a alarm that the PHP
world isn't ready for ereg to be dropped or changed. You need far more
time for the information to make its way through the PHP community.
You are obviously right of course... the PHP world is NOT ready for the
POSIX regex library to be dropped. That's why it's "deprecated" in PHP
5.3 and not removed. In a year or 3, when PHP 6 is released, one would
hope that by then the PHP world WILL be ready.
Cheers,
Rob.
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