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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:14:33 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 3:24 PM, Niels Dossche wrote:
> 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

Seems reasonable to me.  Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed?

--Larry Garfield