Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

2007-09-09 Thread Al Baker
Comments inline On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:07 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone > out and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial > list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've > co

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP] HTTP 1.1 keep-alive support in ext/soap/php_http.c ? (fwd)

2007-08-19 Thread Al Baker
Keep-alive support in SOAP is often problematic as most SOAP frameworks were originally developed under the assumptions that the SOAP HTTP binding would be HTTP 1.0, which is no longer the case. Since RPC SOAP operations are not like document downloading in the strict HTTP sense, frameworks have

Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO and SQLite Compatibility

2006-05-22 Thread Al Baker
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 17:27 -0400, Wez Furlong wrote: > On 5/20/06, Al Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any plans for upgrading the SQLite driver? > > Yes. We didn't want to do this in a point release of PHP because of > BC concerns. I think moving t

[PHP-DEV] PDO and SQLite Compatibility

2006-05-20 Thread Al Baker
Hi, While working on a large embedded project using PHP and SQLite, I ran into some compatibility issues where the sqlite guys broke file compatibility on a dot release. The SQLite situation is: - SQLite 3.3.x can read and write any SQLite 3.x file - SQLite 3.2.x cannot work with SQLite 3.3.0+ f

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1.2 segfaults in get_timezone_info

2006-03-16 Thread Al Baker
default to something rather than segfaulting. Regards, Al On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 02:28 -0500, Al Baker wrote: > Hi, > > We're trying to run php 5.1.2 on Windriver Linux (PPC) -- unsupported I > know -- and most things appear to be working. However when trying to > use S

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1.2 segfaults in get_timezone_info

2006-03-16 Thread Al Baker
Hi, We're trying to run php 5.1.2 on Windriver Linux (PPC) -- unsupported I know -- and most things appear to be working. However when trying to use Smarty (which has calls to date functions for caching), PHP segfaults in time(). Running PHP in GDB shows the trace of failing in memcpy and malloc

Re: [PHP-DEV] type hinting throwing a fatal error

2005-08-23 Thread Al Baker
Generally speaking, many users want to be able to catch every error possible. If there is an error condition that happens, they want to be able to catch it. If it's not possible to catch it in script, perhaps an extension or some other strategy needs to be documented for certain error conditions.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist

2005-08-14 Thread Al Baker
I agree with Ilia that removing these would help drastically reduce the security holes present in PHP applications and generally improve the image of PHP security. Or an alternative way to say that, is it would reduce the FUD being slung at PHP from ignorant people saying PHP is a security nightma

Re: [PHP-DEV] YANP (Yet Another Namespace Proposal)

2005-07-08 Thread Al Baker
is YANP sans the import feature as defined in Jessie's proposal. Thanks! Al On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 20:25 -0400, Al Baker wrote: > I think we're trying to boil the ocean here, and in doing so failing to > see both the problems that need to be solved, and the possible > solutions. I

Re: [PHP-DEV] YANP (Yet Another Namespace Proposal)

2005-07-08 Thread Al Baker
I think we're trying to boil the ocean here, and in doing so failing to see both the problems that need to be solved, and the possible solutions. I'd like to break things down a little bit here to address what the real problem is with a lack of namespaces in PHP. In my eyes, there are really only

RE: [PHP-DEV] allow_url_fopen should be INI_ALL

2005-06-29 Thread Al Baker
Parameter validation is a general thing done for security, whether that be if you're using a variable in an include, database credentials, connecting to a web service, etc. You need to make sure that those basic conditions have a highly controlled set of values, not only for security but to make s

Re: [PHP-DEV] Object execution

2005-06-28 Thread Al Baker
I think it means being able to scope the default execution block for a script. Normally script goes from top-to-bottom dipping into each include and compiles and executes them in a linear fashion. Perhaps having a main would hold off on the execution part until you got to the main() and from ther

Re: [PHP-DEV] allow_url_fopen should be INI_ALL

2005-06-28 Thread Al Baker
There is nothing wrong with fopen or include, and PHP isn't instrinically broken here. The only thing intrinsic about PHP that has anything to do with these security areas is how PHP is powerfully simple - lowering the bar for adoption. When you do this, you pick up newbie programmers who code up

[PHP-DEV] mbstring internal encoding behavior

2004-12-04 Thread Al Baker
-8, SJIS, as was the detect_order. - the http_output ini setting was set to pass in the ini file, and mb_output_handler is used at run-time with the preferred encoding (either UTF-8 or SJIS) - substitute character and function overloading are both off/disabled Any suggestions? Thanks, Al Baker

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-21 Thread Al Baker
s in memory. A high performing mechanism to keep variables in memory, persist objects between requests, and serialize objects for use in multiple scripts is essential in my opinion. Also, how would this play with JSR-223? Regards, Al Baker On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 23:45 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-09-01 Thread Al Baker
ound 94 entries as you said? > > > and, aside from this issue, I found the encoding related bug > again (sigh...) > > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29518 > > how do you think about this? it's worth fixing? or you think this > is just a bogus one? > > &g

Re: [PHP-DEV] native events in PHP

2004-08-31 Thread Al Baker
There's nothing stopping someone from writing their own classes for dispatching and handling events and implementing callbacks today... Are you suggesting something built into PHP like the Java system event queue that people can define their own dispatchers and handlers for? The QT example below i

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-31 Thread Al Baker
ell me the id of the bugs you mentioned? as I > stated, I always take care not to do any harm to the other codes, so > of course I'll fix them ASAP if it's caused by my option. > > regards, > Masaki Fujimoto > > The Message From Al Baker on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:1

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-30 Thread Al Baker
alization" as a _new_ feature of PHP 5... > >Has there been big changes to the way PHP5 handles i18n? > > > >[1] http://www.zend.com/zend/zend-engine-summary.php > > > >Thanks, > >Adam > > > >On 30/08/2004, at 2:11 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-28 Thread Al Baker
So, all the mb_* functions will have the experimental removed? I see a few that still have it, or is that just the mirrors not up to date yet? Al On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:35 +1000, Dave Barr wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Al Baker wrote: > > > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-27 Thread Al Baker
wrote: > Hi, > > On 2004/08/28, at 5:15, Al Baker wrote: > > I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP. The manual > > shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to > > find > > evidence of how stable it really

[PHP-DEV] Status of Multibyte support in PHP

2004-08-27 Thread Al Baker
Hi, I'm trying to find status on the multibyte support in PHP. The manual shows the functions in mbstring to be experimental and it's hard to find evidence of how stable it really is. Is this natively supported in PHP after 4.3.x? Thanks, Al -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing

Re: [PHP-DEV] On Namespaces...

2004-08-18 Thread Al Baker
I would just like to echo some concerns on namespaces. I've pioneered the adoption of PHP in some enterprise development groups at Avaya, and it's been adopted on the merits of the fastest and easiest tool for web interface development. Every now and then someone duplicates a class name and mutte

Re: [PHP-DEV] is_a() vs. instanceof

2004-08-12 Thread Al Baker
I agree, that's the exact behavior I would like as well and what most people would expect. Al On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 23:52 -0400, Hans Lellelid wrote: > Alan Knowles wrote: > > > I think he's referening to something like this (which is common in pear): > > > > $x = $someobj->somemethod(); > > if