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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Implement a LoggerInterface to PHP
From: fullmoon@newsguy.com (crankypuss)

On 11/08/2012 04:42 AM, Florin Razvan Patan wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> After a talk on the Symfony framework here:
> https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/5911
> Long story short, the point that @Seldaek suggestion to have a common
> interface for loggers
> actually makes sense and the best way to have it would be to have PHP
> include it by default.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what amount of work this implies, nor my C skills
> are existent, but with
> PHP having such an interface available it would help standardize
> things in the PHP world.
>
> Also, I'm not sure if this could be backported into existing PHP 5.3
> or PHP 5.4 versions
> but this would make sense to consider it for PHP 5.5.
>
> What do you guys think? Could this be considered to be included in PHP?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Florin
>
> ----
> Florin Patan
>

The possibility of opening security holes or otherwise breaking existing 
applications because new functionality has been introduced "by default", 
is such that inclusions of new functionality *by*default* are usually 
Very Bad Luck and should imo always be avoided.