Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:72252 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 75658 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2014 09:47:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2014 09:47:13 -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 217.147.176.204 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.204 mail4.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.204] ([217.147.176.204:40283] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 04/00-09402-F9802F25 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 04:47:12 -0500 Received: (qmail 25952 invoked by uid 89); 5 Feb 2014 09:40:26 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 25941, pid: 25949, t: 0.0585s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52 Received: from unknown (HELO linux-dev4.lsces.org.uk) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 5 Feb 2014 09:40:26 -0000 Message-ID: <52F207B8.7050901@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:43:20 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 SeaMonkey/2.23 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Declare minimum PHP version required? From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > For general purpose applications (like drupal/wordpress/etc.) it wouldn't > be useful either, because they want nice and descriptive error screens > instead of php fatal errors which would most of the time just result in a > blank screen and some lines in the error log. This is perhaps one of the areas that would benefit from some improvement in a PHP6 roadmap. It IS all too easy to get a blank screen already without adding more? Invariably when an ISP upgrades their PHP service a number of their client sites simply give a white screen, and in many cases the users have no idea where to go next? More verbose responses actually on screen would be a little more constructive. Performance improvements are all very well, and do have a place, but a white screen is no use at all? Certainly it's a not uncommon result these days when upgrading PHP versions ... -- 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