"It is for the better"? How can you justify that? It is a problem that will cause a lot of headaches for a lot of users, yet the solution which I have proposed will remove that problem with only very little effort, yet still leave only one regex engine which has to be supported in PHP 6. You have to balance out the small bit of effort required in implementing this solution against the huge amount of effort required in changing thousands, if not millions of scripts. For the PHP developers to say "we can't be bothered to update the POSIX functions to deal with unicode, so we've decided to drop them from PHP entirely even though it will break lots of scripts" will not go down well in userland. -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org "John Black" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4AF70120.1040209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > The same can be said about the removal of magic_quotes(), it will break A > LOT of old scripts. > I am in the same boat, I did not keep up to date with the PHP developer > plans and just found out about ereg when I installed PHP 5.3. > > I think it was handled properly by displaying warning messages before > actually removing it. It will give people enough time to update their > scripts or weed out the old and insecure scripts. > > Yes, it will create some headache but, AFAIK, it is for the better. > > -- > John > Intelligent Life > http://xkcd.com/638/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
