Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:32154 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59774 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Sep 2007 05:03:03 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59759 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2007 05:03:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Sep 2007 05:03:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.20.123 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.20.123 c2bthomr05.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.20.123] ([213.123.20.123:18646] helo=C2bthomr05.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 34/51-44859-300D4E64 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:03:01 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by C2bthomr05.btconnect.com with ESMTP id GTK61541; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:02:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <46E4D085.8010803@lsces.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:05:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 SeaMonkey/1.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <6F509818-65A2-4B17-8C44-6970E815A169@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Scott MacVicar wrote: >> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes >> >> 1 0 -1 > > +1, The sooner we get rid of this the better, though I could see things > going wrong if its not properly documented for everyone. I'd perhaps not > remove the functions such as get_magic_quotes_gpc and the likes and just > have them acting like they are disabled. This would prevent bc breaks > for most applications. Don't forget that the majority of users have yet to move FROM PHP4. So making things even more difficult to port over is not a good idea. I have two legacy sections of code that I STILL have not worked out what is stopping me switching off register_globals - code that I inherited from others. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php