Personally, I would like to see it operate similar to MySQLi, where you have the convenience of OOP, but can still call a function directly in a procedural manner.
And I definitely feel like we need encoding. We can default it to UTF-8 or to the zend.script_encoding if set, but I think it needs the flexibility to handle different encoding types as well. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Michael Shadle <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It feels like this is just using classes for the sake of using > > classes, adding an unnecessary layer of complexity (and discussion) > > for no real reason except that is the RFC authors preference. > > +1 > > First the discussion was filtering vs escaping. Now it is about how to > implement it as a class etc. > > I don't understand why people have any issue with it being a core > procedural function. You can call that from your OO code just fine. Just > like any other core procedural function. > > There is no reason it has to be OO. OO has to call procedural functions > already (string functions, array functions, curl, json, etc etc); but us > procedural purists don't have to call OO methods and classes if we don't > need to (except now some of the DateTime IIRC which bugs me :p) > > Anyway how hard is it to use something akin to the filter functions? > That's what constants/flags are for. > > Call it str_escape(string, flags optional, encoding optional) and be done > with it. Since it won't be useful to have escape_var or escape_input type > of differentiation and this seems like it could just fit under the string > family of functions (I am a fan of namespaced functions by prefix) > > After that it seems like the discussion would be: > 1) do we even need encoding or is UTF8 just fine > 2) what are the flags to be defined for different escaping methods > > $.02 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- ----------------------- "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." John 15:12 -----------------------
