Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:68463 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33259 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2013 09:28:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Aug 2013 09:28:19 -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 213.123.26.187 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.26.187 c2beaomr09.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.26.187] ([213.123.26.187:34177] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FF/D6-06453-136B4025 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 05:28:19 -0400 Received: from host81-159-192-145.range81-159.btcentralplus.com (EHLO linux-dev4.lsces.org.uk) ([81.159.192.145]) by c2beaomr09.btconnect.com with ESMTP id MEA65760; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:28:14 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5204B690.4060006@lsces.co.uk> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:29:52 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 SeaMonkey/2.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <5202EE67.5020307@sugarcrm.com> <5202FC8A.2070307@sugarcrm.com> <52035622.1090301@lsces.co.uk> <52038ABF.8060904@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2013.8.9.90932:17:7.944, ip=81.159.192.145, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __HAS_FROM, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, BODY_ENDS_IN_URL, __FORWARDED_MSG, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_900_999, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2beaomr09.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B020C.5204B62E.00AD,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2011-07-25 19:15:43, dmn=2013-04-19 10:07:54, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] "php_serialize" session serialize handler From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Leigh wrote: > How php_serialize would cause BC issues for PHP users? > > Not everyone uses PHP in the way you would expect. Just how many sites out there > do you think use PHPs session functionality? I'd go for hundreds of millions, > and that's a pretty big target to hit. > > If you session_encode() something on 5.x with default settings and 5.x+1 cannot > session_decode() it with default settings, that is a BC break. My own concerns with much of this are due to third party libraries using some 'new approach' which requires a particular setup such as changing a default, but another library still requires the old way of working. THAT is the problem. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk