Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
On 7-May-06, at 11:02 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
I am +0 on these two extensions, hence the "to be discussed", as long
as they are not enabled by default I see no problem with symlinking
them in.
I'd like to see the json extension enabled by default. It's a
trivially small extension with no external deps and pretty much
required for modern Web apps.
That's stretching it a bit, don't you think? I don't deny that JSON
extension is useful, but "required" for modern apps, c'mon...
I can't think of anything I have written, or anybody around me has
written in the past 6 months that didn't need json. Yes, I guess if you
have no Javascript at all, then you don't need json, but if you do any
Javascript, it is the only sane way to transfer data from PHP to
Javascript. Even if you don't use Ajax-like backend requests, a simple:
<script>
var data = <?php echo json_encode($php_data)?>;
</script>
Is so much easier, cleaner and safer than any other mechanisms you can
throw at this. The fact that we didn't get this into PHP sooner is
actually a bit sad as far as I am concerned.
And I think the filter extension should be enabled as well, but
without the default filter turned on to make the filtering functions
available.
What impact would it have on the speed of input processing if it is
always there, but not doing anything? I'd prefer to avoid adding extra
overhead for something that does nothing by default, we have enough
performance issues as is in 5.X. Pierre and Derick are telling me that
if the RAW filter is enabled it won't touch the data so perhaps that's
the route we should take, but I'd definitely like to see before & after
benchmarks.
It won't touch the data, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. Being
able to do:
echo input_get(INPUT_SERVER, "SCRIPT_URI", FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
or using the new input_get_args() function to completely and safely
specify all your input parameters to a page is also a big win.
-Rasmus
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