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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:29:02 -0800
To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

As time is very short, I suggest to discuss exactly what we want and then 
to see if it's possible in a 5.1 time frame.
Can you give a short overview of what you had in mind and how the end-user 
would be using the functionality?

Thanks,
Andi

At 02:10 PM 2/1/2005 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>Andi Gutmans wrote:
>>I believe both PDO and Date should be included in the default distro. As 
>>far as PDO is concerned I think for each DB if it is selected at 
>>configure time, the relevant PDO extension should also be enabled. So 
>>doing --with-oci8 should enable both ext/oci8 and ext/pdo_oci. This will 
>>give users more of a choice, give more exposure to PDO which is one of 
>>the most important features of 5.1 and of course, it doesn't really cost 
>>us very much except for having to do some configure hacking.
>
>If I can get off my ass and get it finished up it would be good to get a 
>default input filtering extension in there as well.  We have not done much 
>to help people do proper input validation and although the hook for it is 
>in 5.0 I doubt anybody has actually used it yet.  I'll try to get it into 
>PECL in the next week or so for people to have a look.
>
>-Rasmus