On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Ralph Schindler <ra...@ralphschindler.com>
wrote:
>
> About $php_errormsg , we have error_get_last().
>>>> About $http_response_headers, we have no replacement.
>>>>
>>>> Why not get rid of both ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree. Magically appearing variables are bad design and if we can get
>>> rid of them, PHP 7 is the time.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stas Malyshev
>>> smalys...@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>> did we miss the opportunity?
>>
>
> Maybe so. Truthfully, I came to the conclusion I did not want to propose
> removing $http_response_header unless we had a reasonable replacement for
> the somewhat common workflow of file_get_contents('http://...'); then
> usage of $http_response_header.
>
> I think there might be room to have added http_get_last_header(), or
> something to that effect.
>
>
yeah, but we already mentioned/discussed this that the removal would
require introducing another way (eg. adding a method) for fetching the
headers.
I think that introducing this method can happen in a minor version(without
removing the $http_response_header variable), so I will create a pull
request and ask Julien about including it in 5.5 and upwards.
--
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
