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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:38:11 +0200
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Subject: filter, state of the beast, take over
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

Hello,

The upcoming default PHP Input filter is orphaned. There is no official
active maintainer, or not active.

I commited most of the required changes and it is getting really neat.
Some small APIs changes are still required (separate the options from
the flags in input_get).

Here is a short list of the "recent" changes:

- support of php pcre expressions  (will support caching system)

- added input_get_args, fetches all input in one call

- Added FILTER_FLAG_SCALAR and FILTER_FLAG_ARRAY , allows or
  not array values

- Basic IPv6 validation support

- support for custom decimal separator

- INT and Float filters trim the values before the validations (spaces
  only)

- NULL is returned when a value has not been found or set and FALSE if
  the validation failed

See examples and tests in cvs [5].

I like to take over the development and continue my good work on this
extension,is there any objections?

I do not want to take unilateral decisions but I do want the
best possible extension. It is a must if we are going to enable it by
default in php 6 and bundled it in a 5.x release.


-- Pierre


[1] http://www.beeblex.com/lists/index.php/php.internals/22690
[2] http://www.beeblex.com/lists/index.php/php.internals/22705
[3] http://www.beeblex.com/lists/index.php/php.internals/23064
[4] http://cvs.php.net/pecl/filter