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To: Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
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From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, Kamil Tekiela wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 21:58 Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> wrote:
> 
> > Some should be non-controversial, others a bit more. If such, they 
> > might warrant their own dedicated RFC, or be dropped from the 
> > proposal altogether.
>
> ext/filter deprecations
> 
> As much as I hate this extension, I don't think deprecating these 
> functions is the right choice. It's not unheard of for someone to use 
> filter_input without the filter parameter to avoid getting the warning 
> on missing value. See the top comment on 
> https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.filter-input.php#115086
> 
> Maybe we should just unbundle that whole extension?

Certainly not. It has been the recommended way of accepting incoming 
request variables since whenever we removed magic quotes.

cheers,
Derick

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