Long Time No Blog
It has been a while since I blogged. I've been busy with several things such as ApacheCon Europe and a week holiday at the Lofoten . But new exiting things are on the program. First of all PHP is finally getting ready for Unicode support--with brand new major version number "6". It is going to take quite some time to convert all the extensions to make use of this in a proper way. For me that means that I've to check the mcrypt extension (as that uses binary data and not strings), add locale support with ICU's new locale functions to the date extension. I will also be working on porting the other PHP functions that make use of the system locale to make use of the ICU locale system instead. Besides that I drafted a proposal for a new filter extension to safely deal with input variables. Stay tuned!
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Hey Derick, thanx for the update! I have read about the unicode support in the post above.
What is it about? What is the great difference and all the such? Can you please explain? I'm Greek and a write all my applications in Greek, so i'd like to know..
Thanx, Gonik
I hope it's ok to comment on your input filter stuff here.
First I find it a bit strange to have the filter return false, especially with a boolean filter. Wouldn't it be better to return null, which means something like no value or not of a given type.
Second both number_int and number_float should support negative numbers, which means not stripping a minus sign.
And how is $source interpreted? If I set $source to 3, which means GET and POST, and both have a variable named 'foo' - which one is returned?
b4n, nico
@Nico: I changed the false to null and removed the NOTICE, was already planning on that. As for the negative numbers, that's already in (with flags). $source was not supposed to be a bitmask so I changed that too.
Apparently you can now use unicode characters in naming classes, functions and variables names. I have not tested this yet, but it would be useful for numerous coders.
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I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
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Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1071
Fixed issue #2411: Native Path Mapping is not applied to the initial …
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
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Fixed issue #2405: Handle minimum path in .xdebug directory discovery
I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
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