Had a moment of deja vu over the weekend, wondering about the prevalance of bcmath and then remembering I'd asked that here about three years ago:
http://www.nyphp.org/list/talk-295-common-is-bcmath Daniel Convissor wrote: > Hey Ron: > > >> I'm looking at using some code that uses the bcmath extension. How >> likely is it that a user is going to have hosting without bcmath in >> their PHP? >> > > Crude survey via Google... > > phpinfo -bcmath = 4 million hits > phpinfo +bcmath = 200 k hits Current crude survey via Google... About 2,630,000 results for: phpinfo googlebot -bcmath About 1,130,000 results for: phpinfo googlebot +bcmath I had to change the search a bit, based on: http://blog.securitee.org/?p=18 ... because today I get a paltry 7 results for "phpinfo +bcmath", the first of which is an archive of this list, and the second a mirror of the archive of this list. While you can't really compare the old searches to the new ones much, I think it's still safe to say that bcmath is not reliably available, which is what I was and am still concerned about. Luckily, there's always Math_BigInteger. - Ron -- Join the NY Metro Area Tech Discussion! http://lists.luny.org/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
