Hi internals
We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740) that the -z command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work.
This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line argument.
However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality it never loaded properly.
I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a clean solution isn't straight-forward.
Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least PHP 5.5, a long time.
As passing -d zend_extension=foo on the command line is already a suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the -z option in PHP 8.5 instead of fixing it.
Are there any objections against this? Please let us know.
Kind regards
Niels
Hi internals
We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740)
that the-zcommand line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work.
This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line
argument.
However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP
will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality
it never loaded properly.
I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a
clean solution isn't straight-forward.
Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least
PHP 5.5, a long time.
As passing-d zend_extension=fooon the command line is already a
suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the-zoption in PHP
8.5 instead of fixing it.Are there any objections against this? Please let us know.
Kind regards
Niels
Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed?
--Larry Garfield
Hi internals
We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740)
that the-zcommand line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work.
This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line
argument.
However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP
will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality
it never loaded properly.
I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a
clean solution isn't straight-forward.
Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least
PHP 5.5, a long time.
As passing-d zend_extension=fooon the command line is already a
suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the-zoption in PHP
8.5 instead of fixing it.Are there any objections against this? Please let us know.
Kind regards
NielsSeems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed?
--Larry Garfield
Hi
Just to clarify: the -d option just sets an ini option.
One idea could be to make -z print out a message telling the user to use "-d zend_extension=...". That would make the transition more "gradual".
OTOH this didn't work for ages so nobody realistically relies on this option.
Kind regards
Niels