Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Using obscure single character operators is simply something that we don't do in PHP, it's totally inconsistent with the language. You know I hate magic more than most. I have lobbied against it forever. However, sometimes you need to conform with the underlying 3rd-party mechanism you are

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Egon Schmid
Zeev Suraski wrote: At 05:40 08-09-01, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: It's the kind of thing that gets used a lot in HTML, where otherwise there wouldn't be a function call at _all_ - just static text. Replacing gettext() with _() in this case actually does improve readability, in my opinion.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Emiliano
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: reuse. We can get back to the idea of letting people define % as htmlspecialchars(), You can do that in PHP? How? You can't. You missed the dripping sarcasm. Well, I was torn between accepting it as sarcasm, and getting hints on how to accomplish it :)

Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_parse_parameters

2001-09-08 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 09:33 PM 9/7/2001 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote: On 07/09/01, Andrei Zmievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is implemented (I think Andi may have some thoughts about this), Hopefully not bad thoughts! I do have some bad thoughts about it. I'm worried that if we supply such an easy function

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13209 Updated: I don't know how to configure it

2001-09-08 Thread sander
ID: 13209 Updated by: sander Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Open Bug Type: PWS related Operating System: Windows 98 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Ask support questions on the appropriate mailinglist (see http://www.php.net/support.php). Previous Comments:

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13209 Updated: I don't know how to configure it

2001-09-08 Thread sander
ID: 13209 Updated by: sander Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: PWS related Operating System: Windows 98 PHP Version: 4.0.6 Previous Comments: [2001-09-07 22:28:19] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13210 Updated: problens with php and pws

2001-09-08 Thread sander
ID: 13210 Updated by: sander Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Old Bug Type: Any Bug Type: PWS related Operating System: win98 PHP Version: 4.0.4 New Comment: Ask support questions on the appropriate mailinglist (see http://www.php.net/support.php). Previous

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13211: how to redirect to another php page.

2001-09-08 Thread c_surendra
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: windows 98 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: PHP options/info functions Bug description: how to redirect to another php page. when i try to redirect the page with header(Location: ) is not going to the requested page. Instead

Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_parse_parameters

2001-09-08 Thread Wez Furlong
On 08/09/01, Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have some bad thoughts about it. I'm worried that if we supply such an easy function to parse incoming hash table's people will start writing a lot of PHP functions which accept hash tables instead of regular argument lists. This is

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13211 Updated: how to redirect to another php page.

2001-09-08 Thread sander
ID: 13211 Updated by: sander Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: PHP options/info functions Operating System: windows 98 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: Ask support questions on the appropriate mailinglist (see http://www.php.net/support.php). Previous

Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_parse_parameters

2001-09-08 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 11:01 AM 9/8/2001 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote: On 08/09/01, Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have some bad thoughts about it. I'm worried that if we supply such an easy function to parse incoming hash table's people will start writing a lot of PHP functions which accept hash

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 09:13 08-09-01, Andrei Zmievski wrote: At 05:33 AM 9/8/01 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: That's unfortunate. IMHO, it should be phased out. I'm against it. _() has been around forever as part of gettext package and people who expect to find it in PHP will be pretty disappointed. Disappointment

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 09:36 08-09-01, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Using obscure single character operators is simply something that we don't do in PHP, it's totally inconsistent with the language. You know I hate magic more than most. I have lobbied against it forever. Well, you did in certain occasions, but you

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 10:24 08-09-01, Emiliano wrote: Well, I was torn between accepting it as sarcasm, and getting hints on how to accomplish it :) Totally impossible? Totally. Zeev -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13194 Updated: PHP4,jdk1.2.2

2001-09-08 Thread sniper
ID: 13194 Updated by: sniper Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Duplicate Status: Bogus Bug Type: Apache related Operating System: SUSE 7.0 linux intel i386 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: submitted twice Previous Comments:

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13196 Updated: can I use Seagate Crystal Report writer in PHP

2001-09-08 Thread sniper
ID: 13196 Updated by: sniper Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: windows 2000 professional PHP Version: 4.0.4 New Comment: Please ask support questions on the mailing lists: http://www.php.net/support..php Previous

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Stig Sæther Bakken
[Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 09:13 08-09-01, Andrei Zmievski wrote: At 05:33 AM 9/8/01 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: That's unfortunate. IMHO, it should be phased out. I'm against it. _() has been around forever as part of gettext package and people who expect to find it in PHP will

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
Fine. Let it be noted that I oppose going forward with any other clean-up of the language namespace before this bug goes away. If we don't clean the obvious ones, we might as well keep in everything. (a very disappointed) Zeev At 15:51 08-09-01, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: [Zeev Suraski

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
* On 2001-09-08 at 08:34, Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] excited the electrons to say: Not really. You only have to conform if you believe that PHP is not a standalone language. You're also assuming that most of PHP's userbase has C background, which is usually not true. Among those

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Jim Jagielski
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Using obscure single character operators is simply something that we don't do in PHP, it's totally inconsistent with the language. You know I hate magic more than most. I have lobbied against it forever. However, sometimes you need to conform with the underlying

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 16:37 08-09-01, Jim Jagielski wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Using obscure single character operators is simply something that we don't do in PHP, it's totally inconsistent with the language. You know I hate magic more than most. I have lobbied against it forever. However,

[PHP-DEV] autoconf 2.5x support

2001-09-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Jan Kneschke just informed me, that his patches http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/php4/acinclude.m4?r1=1.138r2=1.139f=u http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/php4/acinclude.m4?r1=1.139r2=1.140f=u to make php4 compatible with autonfon 2.52 were not merged to the 4_0_7 branch and that PHP

[PHP-DEV] Fwd: Marketing Request

2001-09-08 Thread
Antwort auf www.help2sell.de Kontakt-Formular. Sie wurde gesendet von () am Saturday, September 8, 2001 at 16:16:12 --- message: ATTENTION: ANY SERIOUS NETWORK MARKETER TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING OPPORTUNITIES I CAME

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread James Moore
Just to add my few £0.02 to this discussion :) _() just doesnt make sense to anyone who hasnt used gettext() which tbh is probably the vast majority of the comunity, I have seen _ in the function lists and Zend and Harmuts site and just thought it was a querk somewhere.. _() to me looks like

[PHP-DEV] 4.0.7-RC2 on Win32

2001-09-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Builds (with warnings, see below) and runs on Win32. Tested with phpMyAdmin 2.2.0, phpOpenTracker and phpMP3Manager which make use of OO features, ext/session and MySQL. Warnings: zend_llist.c Zend\zend_llist.c(214) : warning C4018: '' : Conflict between signed and unsigned

[PHP-DEV] ¥X°â¶Ç¯u¸¹½X

2001-09-08 Thread v2m_2gkgfvlycqk
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Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_parse_parameters

2001-09-08 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Sat, 08 Sep 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: Anyway, performance aside, there is also the point of conventions. Up to now, PHP has been pretty much a functional language with an argument list. It might make sense for big certificates to be passed as arrays. But instead of going ahead and

[PHP-DEV] dso extensions and php.ini entries

2001-09-08 Thread Edin Kadribasic
Is there a problem with extensions compiled as dso's and their entries in php.ini? I seem to have a problem getting pgsql and mysql extensions to notice their parameters if I compile them as dso's. Edin -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Sat, 08 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: Again, by deprecating it now, the immediate action would be removing any reference to it from the documentation (the very little there is). There are a hell of a lot PHP users to come than there are existing users of PHP, so we might as well limit

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Cristopher Daniluk wrote: Again, as mentioned before, this is suitable: function _($string) { return gettext($string); } once in your code. Voila, now you can still have your short cut, and we can still have our consistent naming structure. Sure, it would be an

RE: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
I think the argument is more consistency in the language than anything. Sure we'd be regressing symantically, but we've done it before for the better of the language. I proposed the user just creating a userspace function. Granted not perfect. Rasmus came up with, in my opinion, the much better

RE: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
Agreed, but is the speed loss really worth crying about? It is negligible calling a userspace function versus an internal compared to the greater work that the typical PHP script does. Hell, it's negligible compared to the work gettext does! Nevertheless, your point is made and is fair at that. I

[PHP-DEV] PHP 3.0 Bug Summary Report

2001-09-08 Thread php-dev
PHP 3.0 Bug Database summary - http://bugs.php.net Num Status Summary (543 total including feature requests) ===[*General Issues]== 4180 Open is_link returns false when target doesnt exist (should return true) 9610 Bogus

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13206 Updated: MD5 option for 128 bytes long digest (standard)

2001-09-08 Thread sander
ID: 13206 Updated by: sander Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Windows 98 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: I've removed the note from the manual. Previous Comments:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
At 09:36 08-09-01, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Using obscure single character operators is simply something that we don't do in PHP, it's totally inconsistent with the language. You know I hate magic more than most. I have lobbied against it forever. Well, you did in certain occasions, but

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: ?= is obviously a concession to ASP users who are used to using %= just like _() is a concession to gettext users. And ?= is in the 'core', while _() is only available when gettext is loaded. -- Sebastian Bergmann Measure Traffic

Re: [PHP-DEV] autoconf 2.5x support

2001-09-08 Thread Sascha Schumann
Could someone merge this? Or are there reasons against merging this for PHP 4.0.7? There are no reasons _for_ merging them into the release branch, and thus they are left out. - Sascha Experience IRCG http://schumann.cx/

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the Rand Merge: apologoy how further?

2001-09-08 Thread Stig Sæther Bakken
Wow. :) - Stig [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi All, I've finally finished reading what has been written about the rand-merge, and have come to a few conclusions. I'll keep it short. First, I really shouldn't have merged rand without asking. First of all, it is indeed against CVS-RULES. Most

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13212: VIRUS

2001-09-08 Thread RESPUESTA
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: win32 PHP version: 4.0CVS-2001-09-08 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: VIRUS This is a virus I discovered. It was in the file PHP_MHASH.DLL and the virus is called BO2K.RC6 see:

Re: [PHP-DEV] About the Rand Merge: apologoy how further?

2001-09-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Stig wrote: Wow. :) [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] (...) I'll keep it short. You were referring to this? Yes, I realized it after I sended it... I (obviously) wrote that before I finished the mail... Jeroen -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: [PHP-DEV] zend_parse_parameters

2001-09-08 Thread Wez Furlong
Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Seriously though - if you put comments in big enough letters in the header and source files, and any docs that use them, stating that they are much slower than the usual way of doing then we should have it covered? People don't read the .h

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13213: Unknown image format

2001-09-08 Thread pulstar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: Linux RedHat 7.1 PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: GetImageSize related Bug description: Unknown image format GetImageSize() don't recognize the JPG image format generated by a software called Arles Image Web Page Creator. I make a

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13212 Updated: virus

2001-09-08 Thread jeroen
ID: 13212 Updated by: jeroen Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Summary: VIRUS Old Status: Open Status: Bogus Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: win32 PHP Version: 4.0CVS-2001-09-08 New Comment: It is impossible to have an virus in the code generated from CVS. You must have

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13214: Request: Tiny patch to allow fast recurisive ftp_rawlist

2001-09-08 Thread gray
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: FTP related Bug description: Request: Tiny patch to allow fast recurisive ftp_rawlist I'm not really up to speed with making diffs and contributing myself, otherwise I would. There are many

[PHP-DEV] Bug #12961 Updated: classes, arrays and serialize / sessions

2001-09-08 Thread mattar
ID: 12961 User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Class/Object related Operating System: Suse 6.3 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: Seems to be fixed in the latest Snapshot... Previous Comments:

Re: [PHP-DEV] zend_parse_parameters

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 18:14 08-09-01, Andrei Zmievski wrote: The real solution to this, of course, would be keyword arguments. It's not really a solution, as this would also be slow (except for fairly rare cases, where we might be able to do the work in compile time). How about them for v2? I think we should

Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
Ken - see my point? :) Andrei - ugliness is not a metrics, anymore than disappointment is. Fact - gettext(foo) is much less magical and much more understandable than _(foo). Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:45:53 -0500 From: Andrei Zmievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13215: QTDOM APACHE DSO

2001-09-08 Thread abner
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: SUSE 7.2 PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Apache related Bug description: QTDOM APACHE DSO I get soome problems like the bug entry #12079. In suse 7.2 some symlinks in the /usr/lib are pointing to old qt libraries and not the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 19:29 08-09-01, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: At 09:36 08-09-01, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Using obscure single character operators is simply something that we don't do in PHP, it's totally inconsistent with the language. You know I hate magic more than most. I have lobbied against it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
At 01:24 09-09-01, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Exactly the same goes for ?= unless you happen to stumble across the one-line footnote on the php.net/echo page. So that's a documentation bug. It clearly belongs in the documentation about PHP's various special tags, just next to

Re: Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Anil Madhavapeddy
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:46:17AM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote: Fact - gettext(foo) is much less magical and much more understandable than _(foo). I think the problem here is that internationalization is being considered a 'separate module', rather than a core piece of functionality that PHP

RE: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Chuck Hagenbuch
Quoting Cristopher Daniluk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Agreed, but is the speed loss really worth crying about? Obviously not to you, but I'm pretty sure you came down in the category of people who'd never used gettext. It is negligible calling a userspace function versus an internal compared to the

RE: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Cristopher Daniluk
I feel like you're getting a bit personal here, but I'll refrain from doing the same and simply provide numbers. This is a demonstration to prove purely the overhead of going into a userspace function that calls an internal versus calling the internal directly. Obviously this isn't scientific,

[PHP-DEV] Bug #12022 Updated: limitations of php://stdout

2001-09-08 Thread noisefactor
ID: 12022 User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Closed Status: Open Bug Type: Output Control Operating System: linux Old PHP Version: 4.0.6 PHP Version: 4.0.2 New Comment: You may want to wait on closing that bug... ID: 12022 Updated by: sterling

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Chuck Hagenbuch
Quoting Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This doesn't mean I agree with the magic _() function, but until we have some sort of efficient run-time function aliasing mechanism like they do in Python, removing _() and telling people to create a user-space function that calls gettext() is not

[PHP-DEV] Bug #12022 Updated: limitations of php://stdout

2001-09-08 Thread rasmus
ID: 12022 Updated by: rasmus Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Output Control Operating System: linux PHP Version: 4.0.2 New Comment: What exactly is the issue here? Why are you trying to open up stdout? You can write gzip data directly without doing

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13216 Updated: Removal of redundant function call

2001-09-08 Thread Paul . Hampson
ID: 13216 User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Grr web interface: http://www.bubblesworth.com/php4.cvs2.diff Previous Comments:

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13217 Updated: Removal of unneeded code from execution flow.

2001-09-08 Thread Paul . Hampson
ID: 13217 User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Grr web interface: http://www.bubblesworth.com/php4.cvs2.diff Previous Comments:

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13216 Updated: Removal of redundant function call

2001-09-08 Thread Paul . Hampson
ID: 13216 User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Grr idiot at keyboard. (That other patch is for #13217) http://www.bubblesworth.com/php4.cvs1.diff

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread George Schlossnagle
Benchmarking the execution time for a single function call by making a page and request it via b is a pretty flawed method. While it may show that a single aliased call to gettext() doesn't change the execution time of a script by much, it does not say anything about the relative times for

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13218: Problema con números binarios

2001-09-08 Thread manuel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: Red Hat Linux 7.1 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: *Math Functions Bug description: Problema con números binarios Intentaba hacer un trabajo con números binarios, primero me puse a probar que tan bueno era php con el

[PHP-DEV] Bug #13145 Updated: Postgres module ignores php.ini

2001-09-08 Thread edink
ID: 13145 User updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: PostgreSQL related Operating System: Linux (Redhat 6.2) PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Bitten by the fact that php looks for php.ini in the / directory first. So beware that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Woah

2001-09-08 Thread Joey Smith
These are two of the most ridiculous statements I have *EVER* heard anyone make. Cleaning up a language is a benefit worth paying in price for. How many millions of lines of C code had to be re-written when the ANSI standard was published? And I'm not personally sure, but I'd be willing to bet

[PHP-DEV] Re: php4 /ext/standard rand.c

2001-09-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
sterling Wed Sep 5 16:52:45 2001 EDT Modified files: /php4/ext/standard rand.c Log: a bit of api cleanup... move range stuff into a macro (properly :) Yeah yeah... I know by now... +#define RAND_RANGE(__n, __min, __max) \ + (__min) + (int)((double)(__max) - (__min) + 1.0) *