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Subject: [PHP-DEV] CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken
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From: dossche.niels@gmail.com (Niels Dossche)

Hi internals

We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740) that the `-z` command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work.
This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line argument.
However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality it never loaded properly.
I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a clean solution isn't straight-forward.
Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least PHP 5.5, a long time.
As passing `-d zend_extension=foo` on the command line is already a suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the `-z` option in PHP 8.5 instead of fixing it.

Are there any objections against this? Please let us know.

Kind regards
Niels