Greetings, I have been playing around with an RFC proposal for some time and recently after discussing it with Tim Düsterhus he has volunteered to do the implementation so I would like to submit to you an RFC around data encoding in PHP. The goal of the RFC is to fully implement RFC4648 (base16 , base32, base64).
I know that PHP already has `base64_encode` and `base64_decode` and `bih2hex` and `hex2bin` but those functions only provide a partial support for RFC4648. In my RFC proposal I would like to introduce, instead, a new namespace `Encoding` that will host an all new and improved API which will cover the complete RFC, will be consistent and easily extendable for future data encoding algorithms addition. For reference, this is not a new topic, the issue with the current implementation is well documented in the mailing list as well as a past attempt to add RFC4648 to the language. - base64_encode without padding https://externals.io/message/122630 - base64 url format https://externals.io/message/119243 - [RFC] RFC4648 encoding https://externals.io/message/91858#91964 If people are interested I will proceed with a karma request and create the draft RFC. Best regards, Ignace Nyamagana Butera
