[PHP-DEV] making sense of all the xml extensions in php 5

2004-08-25 Thread Naik, Roshan
I am trying to make sense of the following 4 xml extensions distributed with php 5 ext/libxml- ?? ext/simplexml {experimental) ext/xml ext/dom {experimental) Dom extension's name is self describing. but about the others ? As I understand, simplexml is a

[PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Naik, Roshan
Every once in a while somebody has to speak out about the state of the union and bear the brunt of some anger... with a hope that things will change for the better. 2 years back I started out asking a question being concerned by the frustration caused to many users (and vendors alike).

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
Rasmus wrote: Really ? Are you sure ? http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week146.php Ok, one self-serving fix. I was (again) expecting exactly that kind of response. I dont understand why so much arrogance exists among a select few. And it unfortunately reflects the community's attitude. So

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
in my 2nd email. 2nd sugesstion is an excellent way to tighten things up. But since this is a community, lets see if the community likes it or what other effective alternatives they can think of. -Roshan -Original Message- From: Naik, Roshan Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 2:14

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
Andi wrote: Oh boy, if you don't see the difference between concrete suggestions to be heard that's fine, but try and keep it short, to the point, and constructive There were concrete solutions (if you cared to read. so atleast read this one all the way) And were also backed up by

[PHP-DEV] XML requirements: Are the docs incorrect ?

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
http://www.zend.com/php5/andi-book-excerpt.php says In PHP 5, all XML extensions have been rewritten to use the superb libxml2 XML toolkit But the official docs http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php on XML extension say under the requirements section This extension uses expat, which

RE: [PHP-DEV] XML requirements: Are the docs incorrect ?

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
Yes, you have it to pick up from xmlsoft.org There is no mention of the minimal libxml2 version required anywhere either. The old dom-xml needed = 2.4.14 But on PHP5 It doesnt seem to like 2.5.9 either. any clue whats the minimal supported version ? -Roshan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

[PHP-DEV] crash problem in php's mysql library (Threads !)

2003-03-28 Thread NAIK,ROSHAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
I had filed a bug report #21855 sometime back. What the problem was: When PHP 4.2.3 was being used along with Apache2 (worker model) accessing the index.php script of PHPMyAdmin was causing the thread that was servicing the request to die with this in the Apache error_log [notice] child pid

[PHP-DEV] PHP thread stack problem on HPUX

2003-07-18 Thread NAIK,ROSHAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
A few months back i submitted a bug report #21855 and forgotten about it. In short ...certain complex enough scripts would cause PHP to crash and burn on HPUX. The gdb backtraces and the fault generated seemed to indicate that memory access was beging performed in the guard pages located just

[PHP-DEV] ignore this.. testing

2004-01-05 Thread NAIK,ROSHAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
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