On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Michael Wallner <m...@php.net> wrote:
> On 2014-09-23 06:00, Sanford Whiteman wrote: > >> What would happen is it'd throw an E_DEPRECATED for at least the > remainder > >> of 5.x, then throw the usual E_WARNING for a missing argument starting > in > >> 7.x with no default. > > > > Sounds OK to me now that I've noticed this: > > > > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68081 > > > > Pretty sure that's a sane report, and it's enough to make me say > > checkdnsrr() doesn't work now at all. > > > Given that this function is over 16 years old [1] and guessing that it > was used as a simple kind of email domain verification, I think > checkdnsrr() works as expected [2], [3]. > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=90222489331812&w=2 > [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2821#section-5 > [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-5.1 > > -- > Regards, > Mike > Except that it doesn't work as expected because most devs (including myself) aren't readily familiar with posts from 1998. And even if that were its purpose back then, that really has no relevance today, as the purpose and identity of PHP itself has evolved drastically since then. If that really is a concern, though, then I would propose getting rid of checkdnsrr() altogether (or making it an alias of checkmxrr()) and creating a new general-purpose DNS lookup function that returns a boolean. Of course, I really don't think that's necessary since this stuff from 16 years ago doesn't have any meaningful bearing on how it's being used today by modern PHP developers. --Kris
