Hi,

Well, that's one solution, but IMHO it seems a bit artificial - I mean,
we're not really filtering anything, as in taking input and manipulating
it.

Shahar.

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 13:08 -0400, Darby Felton wrote:
> Hi Shahar,
> 
> This operation may fit nicely as:
> 
> class Zend_Filter_StringByteLength implements Zend_Filter_Interface
> {
>     /**
>      * Returns the length in bytes of the string $value
>      *
>      * @param  string $value
>      * @throws Zend_Filter_Exception If determining byte length is
> impossible
>      * @return integer
>      */
>     public function filter($value)
>     {
>         /**
>          * @todo Implementation
>          */
>     }
> }
> 
> or something similar?
> 
> Best regards,
> Darby
> 
> Shahar Evron wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am working on one of the Http_Client bugs, ZF-2098, which describes a
> > problem the Http_Client has when sending multi-byte encoded (eg. UTF8
> > Chinese) text in the request body when mbstring is loaded and overloads
> > the strlen() function. This happens because I've been using strlen() to
> > calculate the body size (in bytes - not in characters). 
> > 
> > This works in most cases, but when mbstring overloads strlen with
> > mb_strlen - what you get is the string length in characters and not in
> > bytes. 
> > 
> > Brian DeShong already proposed a patch fixing the problem, but I've
> > found that there are several Zend_Http classes that suffer from the same
> > problem. I'm sure that other ZF classes, as well as users, who need a
> > transparent way to calculate string length in bytes, irregardless of
> > loaded extensions or PHP version (no idea what PHP 6 / 5.3 would cause
> > in this case). 
> > 
> > So, is there any component of the framework where you would see a
> > static ::strByteLength($string) method? I was going to implement one in
> > Zend_Http_Client - but it's not really Zend_Http_Client specific. 
> > 
> > Suggestions welcome ;)
> > 
> > Shahar.
> > 
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