What gruntwork needs to be done

So pending review an acceptance by Dmitry, I've written my first patch for
PHP. While there is a good chance I will need to make further revisions to
the test or code, I don't know what that is.

However, I've got some free time at the moment, and I'd like to make use of
some of the sunk costs of figuring out how to hack PHP. So I know that in
general there is a lot of work to be done. I also know that there are
plenty of open bugs, tests to be written, etc etc. What I am looking for is
someone to say is "here are the next 10 bugs I will work on can you write me
test" or "I wrote this patch on linux, I need someone to make it work on
windows too" or, "Party X complains of this but refuses to fill out a proper
bug report."

Here is a straightforward (but not easy) one:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47435

The php_filter_validate_ip() function in ext/filter/logical_filters.c
needs those reserved IPV6 ranges added to the FORMAT_IPV6 case in the
switch statement there when FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE is set. I say it
isn't super easy because we don't have much in the way of ipv6 parsing
in PHP yet, so it will probably involve finding some decent code that
can expand an ipv6 notation into something we can logically separate.
That might also mean a rewrite of the _php_filter_validate_ipv6()
function in the same file.

Another one, if you are interested in encoding issues:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49687

I don't necessarily agree with Scott that it is wrong to expect
addslashes() to validate the input string. It could call
get_next_char() the same way php_escape_html_entities_ex() in
ext/standard/html.c does. And we need that utf8_decode() fix mentioned
in the report reviewed/committed if it hasn't been already.

I fixed utf8_decode and I had a patch for adding utf8_validate which is probably suitable for 5.4.

http://whisky.macvicar.net/patches/utf8-string.diff.txt

It's not quite done, I had intentions of adding support for using truncate, simple true / false for valid or the unicode replacement character.

My only issue with this is that it essentially duplicates the utf8 part
of get_next_char() from html.c. I'd like to see cs parsing in one place
instead of spread out all over the code tree. The get_next_char()
function also supports other charsets, so we could have a more generic
cs_validate() function along with utf8_validate().

I missed this function last year, abstracting that and making it PHPAPI would be awesome.

Scott

http://whisky.macvicar.net/patches/utf8-string.diff.txt

My only issue with this is that it essentially duplicates the utf8 part
of get_next_char() from html.c. I'd like to see cs parsing in one place
instead of spread out all over the code tree. The get_next_char()
function also supports other charsets, so we could have a more generic
cs_validate() function along with utf8_validate().

Shouldn't this be str_cs_validate() then? Or has the plan been
abandoned to group functions into logical groups by their prefix?

• Martin