PHP6: News from the front...

While everyone else has been busily gearing up for the release of PHP 5.2 and the new features that are going to come with it, ☭ (the artist formerly known as Andrei) and his small band of merry babelonians (yours truly included) have been making inroads on preparing PHP6 for a preview release. In the past week we've managed to roughly double the number of builtin functions (those which are part of the main distribution) that have been reviewed for unicode safety, either flagging them as good or upgrading their functionality.

Some of the work that's been done recently has been "low-hanging fruit" (the bcmath extension for example) requiring nothing but adding a U to the function prototype. Other areas, like filename handling, required some very minor additions to handle downcoding where run-time conversion isn't necessarily appropriate. Meanwhile a few changes (e.g. stream_get_contents(), popen()) involved more careful updates to core functionality in order to handle unicode handling without breaking that precious backward compatability.

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Also the documentation effort for this unicode conversion needs a lot of help! See the RFC on this topic here:
http://doc.php.net/php/rfc/rfc-proposal-show.php?id=6

#1 Philip Olson (Homepage) on 2006-09-25 12:09 (Reply)

(allow_url_include is in 5.2 too)

#2 Hannes Magnusson on 2006-09-26 03:41 (Reply)

Perhaps I should have a band, Andrei and the Merry Babylonians. Or, even better, ☭ and the Merry Babylonians.

#3 Andrei (Homepage) on 2006-09-27 06:50 (Reply)

"you probably know by now that the magic's gone"

Hehe, nicely put

#4 Luke on 2006-10-05 20:32 (Reply)

Will be nice to see, the PHP6 preview as well all the betas and Rc's of upcoming PHP versions, publicited clearly on the PHP homepage ( of course, stated that is beta code).

currenlty this process is done via the qa.php.net which is not really well known for most people.

#5 judas_iscariote (Homepage) on 2006-10-23 13:35 (Reply)

Andrei wants to see a preview release before the end of the year. If the next couple months go as expected, then hitting that milestone is a definately possibility.

#5.1 Sara Golemon (Homepage) on 2006-10-24 14:25 (Reply)

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