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To: PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:07:37 -0400
Subject: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone  
out and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial  
list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've  
compiled a list of all of the suggestions I've received, they are  
listed below in a form that will hopefully make it easy for people to  
vote their yeys and nays. My hope that we can reach an agreement  
within 1-2 weeks so 5.3 can be branched and work on it can begin.

List of Feature Ideas
----------------------------

1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6

1		0		-1

2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by  
default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs

1		0		-1

3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch

1		0		-1

4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch

1		0		-1

5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is  
already available)

1		0		-1

6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes

1		0		-1

7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for  
PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default)

1		0		-1

8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5

1		0		-1

9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available)

1		0		-1

10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED

1		0		-1

11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch

1		0		-1

12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch

1		0		-1

13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli

1		0		-1

14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by  
default)

1		0		-1

15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch

1		0		-1

16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI?  
"htaccess" style ini file support

1		0		-1

17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6

1		0		-1

18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic  
property creation

1		0		-1

Ilia Alshanetsky