PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 3 - Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia) - Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault). (Moriyoshi) 30 Oct 2003, PHP 5 Beta 2 - Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1: . Added Iterators . Improved memory manager . Added Reflection API . Removed the not so working namespaces support . Removed support for expressions within constant declarations. . You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory. - Improved the DBX extension: (Marc) . Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query(). . Added dbx_fetch_row() . Added SQLite support. - Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel) . Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans() . Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE statements into ibase_query() . Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret() . Added ibase_drop_db() . Added ibase_gen_id() . Added ibase_name_result() . Added ibase_errcode() . Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params() . Added ibase_param_info() . Added ibase_wait_event() . Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler() - Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez) - Added new functions: . setrawcookie(). (Brian) . pg_version(). (Marcus) . dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak) . snmp_read_mib(). (Jani) . http_build_query(). (Sara) . ftp_alloc(). (Sara) . array_udiff(). (Andrey) . array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey) . array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey) . array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey) . convert_uuencode(). (Ilia) . convert_uudecode(). (Ilia) . substr_compare(). (Ilia) . pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS) - Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://" wrapper. (Sara) - Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB (Patch by Novicky Marek ). (Thies) - Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm) - Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi) - Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko) - Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters. (Moriyoshi) - Fixed support for fields within XML documents in ext/xml. (Sterling) - Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus) - Fixed bug #25756 (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi) - Fixed bug #25581 (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2) files). (Marcus) - Fixed bug #25494 (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay) - Fixed bug #24766 (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi) - Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not set). (Marcus) - Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev) - Fixed bug #24445 (get_parent_class() returns different values). (Sterling, Stanislav) - Fixed bug #24403 (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object context). (Zeev) - Fixed bug #24399 (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]). (Sterling, Marcus) - Fixed bug #24396 (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev) - Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia) - Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev) - Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call). (Stanislav) - Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev) - Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick) 29 Jun 2003, PHP 5 Beta 1 - Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling) - Switched to Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements. A full list is available at http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php. - Added SQLite (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) extension: (Wez, Marcus, Tal) . Includes bundled SQLite library . Enabled by default - Completely Overhauled XML support: . New simplexml extension. (Sterling) . New DOM extension. (Rob, Chregu, Marcus) . New XSL extension. (Chregu, Rob) . Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL. (James, Sterling) . ext/xml can now use either libxml2 or expat to parse XML. (Sterling) . Removed bundled expat library. (Jani) - New php.ini options: . "session.hash_function" and "session.hash_bits_per_character". (Sascha) . "mail.force_extra_paramaters". (Derick) . "register_long_arrays". (Zeev) - Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling) - Improved the streams support: (Wez) . Improved performance of readfile(), fpassthru() and some internal streams operations under Win32. . stream_socket_client() - similar to fsockopen(), but more powerful. . stream_socket_server() - Creates a server socket. . stream_socket_accept() - Accept a client connection. . stream_socket_get_name() - Get local or remote name of socket. . stream_copy_to_stream() . stream_get_line() - Reads either the specified number of bytes or until the ending string is found. (Ilia) . Added context property to userspace streams object. (Sara) . Added generic crypto interface for streams. (supports dynamic loading of OpenSSL) . Added lightweight streaming input abstraction to the Zend Engine scanners to provide uniform support for include()'ing data from PHP streams across all platforms. . Added 'string.base64' stream filter. (Moriyoshi) . Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register(). (Derick) - Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia) . imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image. (Only available with bundled GD library) . Antialiased drawing support: o imageantialias() - (de)active antialias o imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support - Changed the length parameter in fgetss() to be optional. (Moriyoshi) - Changed ini parser to allow for handling of quoted multi-line values. (Ilia) - Changed get_extension_funcs() to return list of the built-in Zend Engine functions if "zend" is specified as the module name. (Ilia) - Changed array_search() to accept also objects as a needle. (Moriyoshi) - Changed ext/mcrypt to require libmcrypt version 2.5.6 or greater. (Derick) - Changed uniqid() parameters to be optional and allow any prefix length. (Marcus) - Added new iconv functions. (Moriyoshi) . iconv_strlen() . iconv_substr() . iconv_strpos() . iconv_strrpos() . iconv_mime_decode() . iconv_mime_encode() - Added misc. new functions: . ldap_sasl_bind(). (peter_c60@hotmail.com, Jani) . imap_getacl(). (Dan, Holger Burbach) . file_put_contents(). (Sterling) . proc_nice() - Changes priority of the current process. (Ilia) . pcntl_getpriority() and pcntl_setpriority(). (Ilia) . idate(), date_sunrise() and date_sunset(). (Moshe Doron) . strpbrk() - Searches a string for a list of characters. (Ilia) . get_headers() - Returns headers sent by the server of the specified URL. (Ilia) . str_split() - Breaks down a string into an array of elements based on length. (Ilia) . array_walk_recursive(). (Ilia) . array_combine(). (Andrey) - Added optional parameter to get_browser() to make it return an array. (Jay) - Added optional parameter to openssl_sign() to specify the hashing algorithm. (scott@planetscott.ca, Derick) - Added optional parameter to sha1(), sha1_file(), md5() and md5_file() which makes them return the digest as binary data. (Michael Bretterklieber, Derick) - Added optional parameter to mkdir() to make directory creation recursive. (Ilia) - Added optional parameter to file() which makes the result array not contain the line endings and to skip empty lines. (Ilia) - Added new range() functionality: . Support for float modifier. (Ilia) . Detection of numeric values inside strings passed as high & low. (Ilia) . Proper handle the situations where high == low. (Ilia) . Added an optional step parameter. (Jon) - Added encoding detection feature for expat XML parser. (Adam Dickmeiss, Moriyoshi) - Added missing multibyte (unicode) support and numeric entity support to html_entity_decode(). (Moriyoshi) - Added IPv6 support to ext/sockets. (Sara) - Added "ftp://" wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink(). (Sara) - Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://" fopen wrapper. (Sara) - Added input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus) - Added a replace count for str_[i]replace(), see bug #8218. (Sara) - Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane) - Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi) - Fixed bug #24098 (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia) - Fixed bug #21985 and #22064 (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi) - Fixed bug #21600 (Assign by reference function call changes variable contents). (Zeev)