Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27198 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23365 invoked by uid 1010); 25 Dec 2006 14:46:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23350 invoked from network); 25 Dec 2006 14:46:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Dec 2006 14:46:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=antony@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=antony@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: antony@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:36982] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DB/02-10583-834EF854 for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:46:53 -0500 Received: (qmail 16921 invoked from network); 25 Dec 2006 14:44:41 -0000 Received: from internal.zend.office (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (10.1.1.1) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 25 Dec 2006 14:44:41 -0000 Message-ID: <458FE435.1030103@zend.com> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:46:13 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Demin CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <179d34610612140416k482c7483m28e30063dc227c73@mail.gmail.com> <179d34610612250632g6335573dsc5f51d9ed5b6f662@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <179d34610612250632g6335573dsc5f51d9ed5b6f662@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] New hexdump manipulation functions for PHP5 From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal) On 12/25/2006 05:32 PM, Alexander Demin wrote: > Dear sirs, > > this patch for PHP5 adds four new string functions into the extension > 'standard': > - hexdump() > - packhex() > - smart_hexdump() > - smart_packhex() > > The description of these functions and smart hexdump format in general is > attached in the file 'hexdump_descr.txt'. Please elaborate on how these functions can be useful, why in your opinion they should be added to the core (and not PECL) and why this cannot be implemented in PHP itself. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal