New VLD and translit releases
They're two little extension for very distinctive purposes. VLD is a tool for hard core PHP hackers that want to figure out what is going on in PHP's engine. This would be an extremely useful tool for students that want to work on the Google Summer of Code project to implement and finish "Ilia's" Optimizer .
The translit extension focuses on transliterating scripts into different representations. It contains many filters for different tasks. For example the "normalize_numbers" filter can convert "１２３４５６７８９０" into "1234567890" with the following script:
<?php
$input = "１２３４５６７８９０";
var_dump(transliterate(
$input,
array('normalize_numbers'),
'utf-8', 'ascii'));
?>
But many other filters exist, such as converting Chinese text (大平矿难死者增至66人) to pinyin (dapingkuangnansǐzhezengzhi66ren) or stripping out accents (á -> a )and converting ligatures (© -> (c), æ -> ae) etc. The translit extension is also used on this website to create "nice" urls with the following code:
$blurp['url'] = transliterate($blurp['title'],
array(
'cyrillic_transliterate', 'lowercase_latin',
'normalize_ligature', 'diacritical_remove',
'normalize_punctuation', 'remove_punctuation',
'spaces_to_underscore', 'compact_underscores'),
'utf8', 'us-ascii');
Both extensions are available through PECL and installable like:
pecl install vld pecl install translit
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there's also a TRANSLIT option in the iconv() function but to work, you need to set a correct locale.
This piece of code seems familiar, might have seen it somewhere yesterday ;)
Thanks for this new release Derick.
@Damien: I've never found that to work reliable... and we all know that POSIX locales suck anyway, as they're different on every system out there.
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
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No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
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Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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