Proposed changes to PHP language

Dear PHP Community,

I'd like to propose several changes to PHP core:

1. Allow re-throwing exceptions without losing original stack trace,
   like in other technologies:
   try {/.../} catch(Exception $e) { throw; }

catch (Exception $e) { throw $e; }

This does what you want? (A quick test my end appears to keep the stack
trace in-tact at least)

2. Introduce base class for all PHP classes. E.g. Object. It would help
   in type hinting and allow to add new common methods without any magic.

I like this idea.

3. Parse body of PUT request in the same manner as it's done for POST
   request. I guess it should be stored in $_POST array to maintain
   backward
   compatibility. Otherwise $_REQUEST handling should be aware of new array
   with PUT data.

I don't really like the idea of putting non-POST data in $_POST

It would still be nice to have a better way of handing PUT though.

Dear PHP Community,
Hi,

I'd like to propose several changes to PHP core:

1. Allow re-throwing exceptions without losing original stack trace,
like in other technologies:
try {/*...*/} catch(Exception $e) { throw; }

throw $e will do the job.

2. Introduce base class for all PHP classes. E.g. Object. It would help
in type hinting and allow to add new common methods without any magic.

Introduce a type-hint “object” would be better I think. It would replace
is_object call.

3. Parse body of PUT request in the same manner as it's done for POST
request. I guess it should be stored in $_POST array to maintain backward
compatibility. Otherwise $_REQUEST handling should be aware of new array
with PUT data.

var_dump(file_get_contents('php://input'));
Why is it complicated? And place PUT request body in $_POST sounds a bad
idea :-).

4. Add handling of DateTime objects to SoapServer and SoapClient. It
will help in using this build-in datatype without typemap.

I tried to google for these proposals, but didn't find any previous
discussions.

Cheers :-).

--
Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
http://hoa-project.net/

PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/

Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C
http://w3.org/

2. Introduce base class for all PHP classes. E.g. Object. It would help
in type hinting and allow to add new common methods without any magic.

Type-hinting for non-stdClass objects would be handy.

Base class is like mutable Object.prototype in JS. I'm against it.

3. Parse body of PUT request in the same manner as it's done for POST

There are arguments for/against here: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55815

compatibility. Otherwise $_REQUEST handling should be aware of new array
with PUT data.

For BC, PUT data should not be injected into existing vars.

Steve Clay

http://www.mrclay.org/

4. Add handling of DateTime objects to SoapServer and SoapClient. It
   will help in using this build-in datatype without typemap.

This is (at least partially) covered by the patch in
https://bugs.php.net/44383. Have you tried that one to see if its good?

• Martin