PHP 4 NEWS
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-26 Jun 2003, Version 4.3.3RC2
+30 Jul 2003, Version 4.3.3RC2
+- More improvements of NSAPI module (Uwe Schindler)
+ . Possibility to use PHP to generate HTTP error pages (404 Not Found,...)
+ . Possibility to use PHP to generate directory listings for directories
+ without index.html
- Upgraded the bundled Expat library to version 1.95.6. (Jani)
- Upgraded the bundled PCRE library to version 4.3. (Andrei)
-- Added a new parameter to preg_match*() that can be used to specify
+- Added a new parameter to preg_match*() that can be used to specify
the starting offset in the subject string to match from. (Andrei)
- Fixed FastCGI IIS document root problem. (Shane)
- Fixed corruption of multibyte character including 0x5c as second
- Fixed bug #24594 (Rewrite of the imagefill() function). (Pierre-Alain Joye)
- Fixed bug #24592 (NULL related crash in session extension). (Sascha)
- Fixed bug #24573 (debug_backtrace() crashes if $this set to null). (Jani)
-- Fixed bug #24560 (parse_url() incorrectly handling certain file:// based
+- Fixed bug #24560 (parse_url() incorrectly handling certain file:// based
schemas). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #24537 (apache2 compile misses some include directories). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #24535 (ext/mysql: crash when retrieving data from unbuffered
- Fixed bug #19613 (putenv("VAR=") does not empty VAR on win32). (Zeev)
- Fixed bug #11924 (ibase_query(), ibase_execute() mangled passed parameters).
(Jani)
-
+
19 Jun 2003, Version 4.3.3RC1
- Synchronized bundled GD library with GD 2.0.15. (Ilia)
- Improved the engine to use POSIX/socket IO where feasible. (Sascha)
. php4_init (magnus.conf): new parameter to set alternate path to php.ini.
(php_ini="/path/to/php.ini")
. php4_execute (obj.conf): support for additional php.ini values.
- Allows different settings per virtual server.
+ Allows different settings per virtual server.
(See sapi/nsapi/nsapi-readme.txt for more information)
. Added support for virtual().
- . Added nsapi_request_headers() and nsapi_response_headers() with aliases
+ . Added nsapi_request_headers() and nsapi_response_headers() with aliases
for apache compatibility.
- . Added "nsapi.read_timeout" php.ini option.
+ . Added "nsapi.read_timeout" php.ini option.
. Synced $_SERVER variables to be similar to Apache variables.
- Improved the IMAP extension (Ilia)
. Added imap_timeout() function. (bug #24161)
. Added optional 'charset' parameter to imap_search() and imap_sort().
(bug #22505)
- Improved the InterBase extension (Daniela)
- . Added transaction constants: IBASE_REC_VERSION, IBASE_REC_NO_VERSION,
+ . Added transaction constants: IBASE_REC_VERSION, IBASE_REC_NO_VERSION,
IBASE_WRITE, IBASE_WAIT and IBASE_CONCURRENCY. (bugs #8797, #23887)
. Made numeric/decimal datatype handling work on any platform.
- Added DBA handler 'inifile' to support ini files. (Marcus)
(Ilia)
- Fixed bug #24155 (gdImageRotate270 incorrectly use x parameter for y axis).
(tom@gksystems.com, Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #24150 (crash in imap_fetch_overview() &
+- Fixed bug #24150 (crash in imap_fetch_overview() &
imap_rfc822_write_address()). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #24060 (ncurses_del_panel() causes segfault). (Georg)
- Fixed bug #24054 (Integer overflow failure with GCC/x86 for *=). (Sascha)
. Disallowed Berkeley db versions 4.1.0 to 4.1.24 due to locking problems.
. Disallowed linkage of Berkeley db submodules against libraries with
different major versions.
- . Disallowed configuring of more than one Berkeley db handler.
+ . Disallowed configuring of more than one Berkeley db handler.
. Reenabled dba_popen() with new persistent STDIO streams.
-- Added a new Apache 2.0 SAPI module (sapi/apache2handler) based on the old
+- Added a new Apache 2.0 SAPI module (sapi/apache2handler) based on the old
version (sapi/apache2filter). (Ian Holsman, Justin Erenkrantz)
- Added "disable_classes" php.ini option to allow administrators to disable
certain classes for security reasons. (Harald)
- Added imagesavealpha() and imageistruecolor() functions. (Pierre)
- Added XBM support for bundled GD library. (Marcus)
- Added session_regenerate_id() function. (Sascha)
-- Added zlib_get_coding_type() function which returns the coding type used for
+- Added zlib_get_coding_type() function which returns the coding type used for
output compression. (Moriyoshi)
- Added OCIPasswordChange() which allows renewing expired Oracle users. (Maxim)
-- Added memory_get_usage(). Only available when PHP is configured with
+- Added memory_get_usage(). Only available when PHP is configured with
--enable-memory-limit. (Andrey)
- Added improved JPEG 2000 support for getimagesize(). (Marcus, Adam Wright)
- Added XBM and WBMP support for getimagesize(). (Marcus)
-- Added KOI8-R, CP866, and CP1251 support for htmlentities().
+- Added KOI8-R, CP866, and CP1251 support for htmlentities().
(Antony Dovgal, Moriyoshi)
- Added domdocument->free() to free XML-documents from memory. (Rob Richards)
- Fixed a bug in error reporting with the CLI for start-up errors. (Derick)
- Fixed bug #23788 (str|preg_replace() clobber the array elements). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #23765 (file uploads ignored due to case sensitivity). (Sara)
- Fixed bug #23738 (ifx_copy_blob() crash). (Jani)
-- Fixed bug #23661 (mysql_fetch_array() gives no warning when an invalid
+- Fixed bug #23661 (mysql_fetch_array() gives no warning when an invalid
argument was passed as result_type). (Derick)
- Fixed bug #23619 (set_error_handler() registered handler not called for
object instances). (Jani, waboring@qualys.com)
- Fixed bug #22939 (crash in imap_header_info()). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #22844 (Changing bool value via -d or ini_set(), On would be Off).
(Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #22786 (Crash when trying to call DomAttribute's
+- Fixed bug #22786 (Crash when trying to call DomAttribute's
set_namespace method). (Chregu)
- Fixed bug #22775 (Fatal errors exit with status 0 with CGI/CLI). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #22774 (PHP crashes when exiting (long XML doc)). (Rob Richards)
-- Fixed bug #22751 (Compile error in gdcache.c when external libgd is used).
+- Fixed bug #22751 (Compile error in gdcache.c when external libgd is used).
(Jani)
- Fixed bug #22721 (Poor file() performance on systems without mmap). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #22709 (Crash in interbase when database unavailable).
(Vladimir Michl)
- Fixed bug #22681 (Crash when reading from invalid file pointer). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #22672 (User not logged under Apache2). (Ian)
+- Fixed bug #22672 (User not logged under Apache2). (Ian)
- Fixed bug #22616 (Wrong order of -lssl and -lcrypto with IMAP). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #22613 (imagettfbox() does not add the kerning distance to the
running position). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #22207 (e notation in *printf would be missing a 0 when there is
no exponent). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #22220 ("php_admin_value open_basedir none" does not work). (Jani)
-- Fixed bug #22191 (frontbase build broken with old version of frontbase).
+- Fixed bug #22191 (frontbase build broken with old version of frontbase).
(Ilia)
- Fixed bug #22187 (spprintf function did not handle floats correctly). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #22149 (incorrect insertion of session id when tabs are used to
- Fixed bug #22088 (array_shift() left next index to be +1 too much). (Jani)
- Fixed bug #22083 (MySQL charset directory problem on Windows). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #22059 (ftp_chdir() causes segfault). (Sara)
-- Fixed bug #22048 (crash in imap_header() when the e-mail contains an
+- Fixed bug #22048 (crash in imap_header() when the e-mail contains an
abnormally large number of special characters). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #22042 (pg_result_seek() would never seek to the 1st row in the
result due to always seeking to row next to the one requested). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #21453 (improper handling of non-terminated < by strip_tags()).
(Ilia)
- Fixed bug #21445 (gd unable to open fonts). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #21443 (improper handling of ? surrounded by spaces
+- Fixed bug #21443 (improper handling of ? surrounded by spaces
in get_browser()). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #21442 (crash in mail() on Windows when 1st parameter is empty).
+- Fixed bug #21442 (crash in mail() on Windows when 1st parameter is empty).
(Edin)
- Fixed bug #21410 (fixed handling of NULL or "" files on Win32). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #21378 (COM code crashes after update 4.2.1 to 4.3.0). (Harald)
- Fixed bug #21338 (html_entity_decode() crashed when "" is passed). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #21310 (Solaris has issues with getcwd() needing read permissions
on directories instead of just execute). (Wez, jflemer)
-- Fixed bug #21297 (in CLI/CGI on the #! it would leave a \n when the code
+- Fixed bug #21297 (in CLI/CGI on the #! it would leave a \n when the code
encounters \r\n). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #21268 (session_decode() returned FALSE on success). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #21267 (opening URLs that result in redirection to a relative
(Ilia)
- Fixed bug #17448 (Print the message when OCI_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO is returned).
(Maxim)
-- Fixed bug #17098 (make Apache2 aware that PHP scripts should not be cached).
+- Fixed bug #17098 (make Apache2 aware that PHP scripts should not be cached).
(Ilia)
- Fixed bug #16798 (Compile failure with LOB support for Oracle version < 8.1).
(Maxim)
- Fixed a crash when converting between true-color images (png/jpeg) and
gd1/gd2 image formats, png/jpeg -> gd1/gd2 -> png/jpeg conversion now
works correctly. (Ilia, Pierre-Alain Joye)
-- Fixed a memory leak in the bundled GD library inside
+- Fixed a memory leak in the bundled GD library inside
gdImageTrueColorToPalette(). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #12776 (array_walk crash). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bug #20934 (htmlspecialchars returns latin1 from UTF-8). (Moriyoshi)
- Fixed bugs #20270, #15702, #18600 (segfaults in ext/java). (Tony J. White)
- Made bcmath extension thread safe. (Sander)
- Fixed bug #19566 (get_declared_classes() segfaults). (Moriyoshi, Marcus, Andi)
-- Fixed bug #20381 (array_merge_recursive mangles input arrays). (Moriyoshi)
+- Fixed bug #20381 (array_merge_recursive mangles input arrays). (Moriyoshi)
- Added -n command switch to cli and cgi version which allows to skip php.ini
parsing at startup. (Marcus, Wez)
- Fixed bug #19689 (absolute paths like /test/dir/ not working correctly).
(Ilia)
-- Added "neutral" language entry to mbstring spec. (Moriyoshi)
+- Added "neutral" language entry to mbstring spec. (Moriyoshi)
- Changed bundled gd library to consider php.ini option memory_limit. (Marcus)
- Modified log() to accept multiple bases. (Jason)
- Fixed bugs #16190/18746 (ext/db: flatfile support with windows). (Marcus)
. Added a new function sybase_fetch_assoc()
. Added sybase_set_message_handler() which enables users to handle
server messages in a callback function
- . Added an ini entry for deadlock retries - retrying deadlocks can cause
+ . Added an ini entry for deadlock retries - retrying deadlocks can cause
transaction state to break (sybct.deadlock_retry_count,
defaults to -1 "forever").
. Fixed sybase_fetch_object() not to return objects with numeric members
- Fixed bug #18868 (improved the check for availability of realpath()). (Ilia)
- Fixed width/height detection of bmp images using getimagesize() function on
big endian systems and added code to retrieve bmp bit depth. (Ilia)
-- Fixed bug #20035 (line counting error when script starts with #! in
+- Fixed bug #20035 (line counting error when script starts with #! in
cgi/cli/fastcgi sapis). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #20235 (incorrect handling of symlinks on ZTS build). (Ilia)
- Added sanity checks to headers_sent() & image_type_to_mime_type(). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #20169 (implode() clobbers first argument). (Moriyoshi)
- Improved dba extension (Marcus)
. Added dba_handlers() that returns an array of installed handlers and
- dba_list() that returns an associative array of open database files.
+ dba_list() that returns an associative array of open database files.
. Added bundled cdb support wich can be activated by --with-cdb without a
path. The bundled version supports cdb_make that allows writing cdb files.
. Added optional skip parameter to dba_fetch() to support multiple key-value
(Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia)
- Fixed bug #17497 (mssql extension crashes if magic_quotes_runtime is on).
(Sterling)
-- Remove $_FILES from $_REQUEST (import_request_variables is not modified),
+- Remove $_FILES from $_REQUEST (import_request_variables is not modified),
this didn't work properly in the first place, and added confusion. (Sterling)
- Fixed the socket_read() function on win32 to work in normal mode (reading to
the end of a line), as well as binary mode. (Sterling)
- Fixed fgets($fp) to read until EOL when length parameter is not set. (Wez)
- Changed registry entries under "HKLM\SOFTWARE\PHP\Per Directory Values" to
work also with administrative directives such as safe_mode, open_basedir,
- etc. (Claudio Felber)
+ etc. (Claudio Felber)
- Added str_word_count() function which counts words inside a string. (Ilia)
- Added PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW option to pg_connect() (Yasuo)
- Added ICONV_IMPL and ICONV_VERSION constants to iconv extension to
- Added ob_get_clean() and ob_get_flush(). (Yasuo)
- Added ftp_ssl_connect() to ext/ftp for FTP over SSL support. (Stefan Esser)
- Made a few additions and changes to Apache 2 sapi. (Ilia)
- . Added apache_response_headers(), apache_note(), apache_getenv() and
+ . Added apache_response_headers(), apache_note(), apache_getenv() and
apache_setenv() functions.
. Added more detailed error reporting to apache_lookup_uri() and virtual().
. Renamed getallheaders() to apache_request_headers() and made an alias for BC.
- Fixed bug #17825 (ob_start() chunk size option didn't work well). (Yasuo)
- Fixed output buffer infinite loop when buffer_size became 0. (Marcus, Wez)
- Added getopt() for parsing command line options and arguments. (Jon)
-- Added pg_fetch_assoc(), pg_fetch_all(), pg_ping(), pg_meta_data(), pg_convert(),
+- Added pg_fetch_assoc(), pg_fetch_all(), pg_ping(), pg_meta_data(), pg_convert(),
pg_insert(), pg_select(), pg_update(), pg_delete(), pg_result_seek(),
pg_unescape_bytea(), pg_get_notify() and pg_get_pid(). (Yasuo)
- Fixed bug #17281 (Sanity checks for encoding sessions). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #16995 and #19392 (Prevent crash if $HTTP_SESSION_VARS != ARRAY).
(Ilia)
- Fixed bug #19292 (open_basedir restriction problem). (Rasmus)
-- Fixed bug #19366 (gdImageFill crashes when x & y are outside of
+- Fixed bug #19366 (gdImageFill crashes when x & y are outside of
the image's boundries). (Ilia)
- Fixed bug #13936 (__FILE__ constant didn't contain full path). (Ilia)
- PHP now has a new stream system that allows it to do some clever stuff with
fopen() and fsockopen(). As a result:
. URL wrappers natively supports https:// URLs if you have compiled
OpenSSL support into PHP (shared extension does not support this).
- . Added support for fopen("ftps://...", ...) which allows to connect to FTP
+ . Added support for fopen("ftps://...", ...) which allows to connect to FTP
servers via SSL. (Stefan Esser)
. fsockopen() adds support for ssl:// and tls:// connections via TCP/IP
. copy($srcfilename, $destfilename) can now be used with URL wrappers
Fixed bug #18609 (ImageCreateFromJPEG can't fetch from a URL). (Wez)
- Fixed bug #18022 (fopen does not work with php://stdin anymore on Solaris).
(Wez)
-- Added php.ini option "default_socket_timeout" to set the timeout limit for
+- Added php.ini option "default_socket_timeout" to set the timeout limit for
PHP network streams. (kalowsky, ilia@prohost.org, Wez)
-- Added file_get_contents() which returns the contents of a file as a string.
+- Added file_get_contents() which returns the contents of a file as a string.
This function also supports the URL wrappers. (Wez)
- Fixed bug #19595 (Missing functions for GD2 format handling). (Edin)
- Fixed bug #19633 (Wrong directories in ext/ldap/config.m4). (Derick)
with strip_tags() function. (Ilia)
- Fixed bugs #17570 and #17957 (Regexps related). (Andrei, Ilia)
- Fixed bugs #18167 and #16859 (SEGV with session_decode). (Ilia)
-- Fixed bugs #19573 and #13472 (Session, XHTML compliance and trans_sid).
+- Fixed bugs #19573 and #13472 (Session, XHTML compliance and trans_sid).
(Sascha)
-- Fixed bug #19570 (last character was missing in get_html_translation_table).
+- Fixed bug #19570 (last character was missing in get_html_translation_table).
(Wez)
- Upgraded PCRE to version 3.9. (Wez)
-- Fixed bug in OCIResult() which returned garbage when called on
+- Fixed bug in OCIResult() which returned garbage when called on
empty result-sets. (Thies)
- Added ability to use Perl-style ${n} subpattern references in the
replacement string for preg_replace() (bug #18442). (Andrei)
- Backported debug_backtrace() from ZendEngine2. (Thies)
- Added html-free phpinfo() output for CLI. (Jan)
- Fixed socket_recvfrom() to be binary safe. (Jason)
-- Changed mail() to use escape_shell_cmd() to allow multiple extra parameters
+- Changed mail() to use escape_shell_cmd() to allow multiple extra parameters
to the invocation of the mailer as used in the fifth parameter. (Derick)
- Changed cURL extension to require cURL version 7.9.8 (Derick)
- Added zend_execute_internal which is called like zend_execute but for
internal functions. (Thies)
- Changed pg_connection_status(), pg_connection_reset(), pg_connection_busy(),
- pg_result_status() and pg_result_error() to silently return FALSE when
+ pg_result_status() and pg_result_error() to silently return FALSE when
resource is not passed to them. (Yasuo)
- Fixed some mysql compile failures on 64 bit-OS. (Georg)
- Added warnings for deprecated mysql functions:
- . mysql_create_db()
- . mysql_drop_db()
+ . mysql_create_db()
+ . mysql_drop_db()
. mysql_escape_string()
- Added XsltObject->result_dump_mem($result) for returning xslt-result directly
- into a string and XsltObject->result_dump_file($result,$file[,$compression])
+ into a string and XsltObject->result_dump_file($result,$file[,$compression])
for dumping into a file. (morus.walter@web.de, chregu)
- Made mime_magic and ZIP extensions available on Windows. (Edin)
- Added xslt_backend_version() and xslt_backend_name() for getting
information about the processor backend. (chregu)
-- Added ImageColorMatch() and ImageLayerEffect() functions which are only
+- Added ImageColorMatch() and ImageLayerEffect() functions which are only
available when using the bundled GD library. (ttoohey)
- Made major improvents to the pcntl extension. (Jason)
. Greatly improved performance (signal callback mechanism uses ticks)
ie. new_child is moved, not copied. (chregu)
- Added some namespace support with DomNode->add_namespace(uri, prefix)
and DomDocument->create_element_ns(uri, nodename) (chregu)
-- Added optional parameter to DomElement->node_name() for retrieving fully
+- Added optional parameter to DomElement->node_name() for retrieving fully
qualified name (ie. namespace prefix). (chregu)
- Changed DomNode->child_nodes() to return empty array instead of false if no
child nodes are found. (chregu)
- Fixed a bug with handling the Expect header. (Patch by ilia@prohost.org)
-- Fixed a bug in ODBC where closing the module caused a crash in the Windows
+- Fixed a bug in ODBC where closing the module caused a crash in the Windows
executable. (kalowsky)
- Fixed memory leaks in pack() and unpack(). (Patch by ilia@prohost.org)
-- Added URLs to error messages which direct to a page describing the error or
+- Added URLs to error messages which direct to a page describing the error or
function in question. (Derick, Wez, Marcus)
-- Added odbc_data_source() functionality to identify DB ServerName, and a
+- Added odbc_data_source() functionality to identify DB ServerName, and a
description of it gathered from the DSN. (kalowsky)
- Fixed copy() to return TRUE with 0 byte files. (Patch by ilia@prohost.org)
- Added ob_list_handlers() which returns an array of all active output
comma separated string. (Marcus)
- Added the ability for declare() compiler modifications to occur globally
by using an empty statement. (Jason, Zend Engine)
- i.e.
+ i.e.
//Globally enables the ticks modifier for the whole program
declare (ticks=1);
- Added optional 5th parameter to FTP functions to support resuming. (Stefan)
- Added optional 2nd parameter to print_r() to make it return the variable
representation instead of echoing it. (Derick)
-- Added mysql_ping(), mysql_real_escape_string(), mysql_character_set_name(),
+- Added mysql_ping(), mysql_real_escape_string(), mysql_character_set_name(),
mysql_thread_id(), mysql_stat() and mysql_list_processes(). (Zak, Georg)
- Added safe_mode & open_basedir checks for pg_lo_export(). (Yasuo)
- Added open_basedir check for pg_lo_import(). (Yasuo)
- Fixed infinite recursion crash bug in ticks. (Jason)
-- Added php.ini option "mysql.connect_timeout" to set the timeout limit for
+- Added php.ini option "mysql.connect_timeout" to set the timeout limit for
mysql_connect() and mysql_pconnect(). (Georg)
-- Added optional parameter "flags" to mysql_connect() and mysql_pconnect()
+- Added optional parameter "flags" to mysql_connect() and mysql_pconnect()
which can be used to set usage of idle timeout and different protocols,
SSL and compressed. (Georg)
- Added automatic rollback to ext/mysql for non committed transactions. (Georg)
-- Fixed cases where preg_split() incorrectly terminated final element if it
+- Fixed cases where preg_split() incorrectly terminated final element if it
contained null bytes. (Andrei)
- Added persistent connections/pipelining to thttpd. (Sascha)
- Fixed two potential blocking issues in thttpd. (Sascha)
- Made iconv() work well with both libiconv and libgconv. (Moriyoshi, Yasuo)
- Fixed socket_set_timeout() on win32. (Jason, Edin, Jani)
- Added domxml_node_namespace_uri(). (Rui Lopes)
-- Fixed win32 memory leak in /ext/sockets that would occur on any error
+- Fixed win32 memory leak in /ext/sockets that would occur on any error
condition. Also fixed host resolution error messages on win32. (Jason)
- Added optional 3rd parameter 'recursive' to ftp_rawlist() which will
do 'LIST -R' instead of 'LIST'. (Jani)
for iff imagetype. (Marcus)
- Added runtime Apache2 thread check to ensure we don't run a non-threaded
PHP inside a threaded Apache2 MPM. (Rasmus)
-- Made getimagesize() and exif_read_data() to return also the mime-type and
+- Made getimagesize() and exif_read_data() to return also the mime-type and
exif_thumbnail() to return also the image-type. (Marcus)
- Added image_type_to_mime_type() which converts image-types to mime-types.
(Marcus)
-- Made GD functions to only exist if they are available in libgd. Now the
+- Made GD functions to only exist if they are available in libgd. Now the
availability can be tested with function_exists(). (Derick)
- Added an optional parameter to the header() function which overrides the HTTP
response code. (Derick)
- Fixed is_a() to properly work on extension registered classes. (Andrei)
- Added new constants: PHP_PREFIX and PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX. (Stig)
- Added pctnl_alarm() function. (Edin)
-- If zlib.output_compression is enabled and a page is compressed
+- If zlib.output_compression is enabled and a page is compressed
a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header is now added. (Stefan)
-- Renamed getallheaders() to apache_request_headers() and kept getallheaders()
- as an alias to it. Also added apache_response_headers() which returns the
+- Renamed getallheaders() to apache_request_headers() and kept getallheaders()
+ as an alias to it. Also added apache_response_headers() which returns the
current response headers from Apache. (Rasmus)
-- Added missing AddRef() calls in the COM extension. This should fix weird
+- Added missing AddRef() calls in the COM extension. This should fix weird
behaviour (in particular with ADODB). (Harald)
- Fixed segfault in version_compare(). (Stig)
- Added compressed Flash MX files support to getimagesize(). (Derick)
information is saved to the specified file. (chregu)
- Added MD5 support for crypt() on Windows. (Edin)
- Fixed resource bug in LDAP extension. (Stig Venaas)
-- Fixed crash in output buffering when buffer is overwritten in a callback.
+- Fixed crash in output buffering when buffer is overwritten in a callback.
(Yasuo)
- Added output_add_rewrite_var() and output_remove_rewrite_var() to inject
and remove variables from the URL-Rewriter. (Thies)
-- The Windows build can now be configured more comfortably, for example
+- The Windows build can now be configured more comfortably, for example
when dealing with built-in extensions. (Sebastian)
- Added large OID value (2^31 to 2^32) support for pg_lo_import(),
pg_lo_unlink(), pg_lo_open() and pg_lo_export(). (Yasuo)
- Fixed mixing OCIPlogon() and OCINLogon() to not leak Oracle-Sessions. (Thies)
- Added php.ini options for EXIF extension to encode and decode Unicode/JIS
user comments. (Marcus)
-- Changed the "-c" CLI/CGI option to allow both 'filename' and
+- Changed the "-c" CLI/CGI option to allow both 'filename' and
'path to php.ini'. (Yasuo)
- Added version information to the .dll and .exe files created under Windows.
(jtate)
- Added __FUNCTION__ and __CLASS__ constants. (Jani, Zend Engine)
-- Added optional 2nd parameter for pg_result_status() to specify return type.
+- Added optional 2nd parameter for pg_result_status() to specify return type.
(Yasuo)
-- Added "log_errors_max_len" php.ini option which controls maximum length for
+- Added "log_errors_max_len" php.ini option which controls maximum length for
error messages. (Marcus)
- Added "ignore_repeated_errors" and "ignore_repeated_source" php.ini options
which can be used to disable logging of repeated error messages. (Marcus)
- Added "pgsql.ignore_notice" and "pgsql.log_notice" php.ini options. (Yasuo)
- Added "zlib.output_compression_level" php.ini option. (Stig)
- Added support for --with-apxs build on Mac OS X / Darwin. (markonen)
-- Added support for dynamically loaded extensions on OS X / Darwin.
+- Added support for dynamically loaded extensions on OS X / Darwin.
NOTE: This requires Apache 1.3.25 or later. (kalowsky, markonen)
- Fixed CR/LF processing in quoted_printable_decode() on Win32. (kir)
- Made crack extension available on Win32. Cracklib libraries for Win32 are
(Yasuo)
- Made var_dump() handle recursive structures better. (Yasuo, Derick)
- Added exif_imagetype() function. (Marcus)
-- New improved build system. Among other improvements, replaces the slow
+- New improved build system. Among other improvements, replaces the slow
recursive make with one global Makefile and eases the integration of proper
- dependencies. Automake is only needed for its aclocal tool. The build
+ dependencies. Automake is only needed for its aclocal tool. The build
process is now more portable and less resource-consuming. (Sascha)
06 Sep 2002, Version 4.2.3
- Fixed a crash in pg_lo_write() (Yasuo)
- Fixed posix_isatty() and posix_ttyname(). (Markus)
- Fixed accidental pg_lo_import() API change. (Yasuo)
-- Fixed ereg_replace() crash when the backreference number was greater than the
+- Fixed ereg_replace() crash when the backreference number was greater than the
number of captured subpatterns. (oliver@billix.franken.de)
- Fixed array_rand() on thread-safe platforms such as Windows. (Edin)
- Report the right exit code after a call to exit(). (Edin)
* Changed the old $node->append_child() to $node->append_sibling() since
the new append_child() behaves correctly (= W3C standard).
* Added domxml functions:
- . domxml_elem_get_elements_by_tagname()
+ . domxml_elem_get_elements_by_tagname()
. domxml_doc_get_elements_by_tagname()
. domxml_doc_get_element_by_id()
. domxml_elem_remove_attribute()
. domxml_elem_get_attribute_node()
- * Fixed a segfault in domxml_unlink().
- * Added formatting option to domxml_dump_mem().
+ * Fixed a segfault in domxml_unlink().
+ * Added formatting option to domxml_dump_mem().
(Uwe, jtate, Chregu)
- Fixed a bug in socket_select() that could cause unexpected behavior when
using a statement like $w = $e = array($sock); This change unfortunately
- Fixed a couple of bugs in array_sum() and array_merge(). (Andrei)
- Fixed SJIS directory name handling under Windows. (Rui)
- Fixed empty mb_output_handler() output when Content-Type is specified.
- (Yasuo)
+ (Yasuo)
- Fixed the false logic in ext/session which made SID constant not to be
defined when cookies are disabled. (Sascha)
- Fixed possible crash bug in HTTP uploads. (Patch: Lucas Schroeder)
- Moved ext/mailparse to PECL. See http://thebrainroom.com/opensource/php/
for more information and to download the extension. (Wez/Jim)
- Fixed pg_last_notice() crash. (Yasuo)
-- Modified the mysql extension to disable 'LOAD LOCAL' when safe mode is
+- Modified the mysql extension to disable 'LOAD LOCAL' when safe mode is
enabled. (Jason)
-- Added CLI (command line interface) sapi which is more suitable for writing
- shell scripts. Some of the differences to CGI sapi are: no HTTP headers,
+- Added CLI (command line interface) sapi which is more suitable for writing
+ shell scripts. Some of the differences to CGI sapi are: no HTTP headers,
plain text error messages, does not change working directory, have a new -r
option which executes a piece of PHP code directly from the commmand line, etc.
(Edin)
. Modified socket_last_error() to not clear the last error
. Added socket_clear_error() which clears the last error on a socket
. Removed all code pertaining to fd_sets (socket_fd_*)
- . Modified/Improved socket_select() to accept array of resources instead of
- fd_sets. example:
- <?php
+ . Modified/Improved socket_select() to accept array of resources instead of
+ fd_sets. example:
+ <?php
$wfds=$rfds=array($sock1, $sock2, $sock3, $sock7);
$r=socket_select($rfds, $wfds, NULL, 1);
print "Ready to read:\n"; var_dump($rfds);
?>
- Fixed segfault in ibase_close() if user does not free the resultset.
Bugs #15419, #15992. (daniela)
-- Added optional 3rd parameter "int encoding_mode" to gzencode() and fixed
+- Added optional 3rd parameter "int encoding_mode" to gzencode() and fixed
parameters to conform documentation. (Stefan)
- Changed read_exif_data() to be an alias of exif_read_data(). (Marcus)
- Added exif_tagname() function which returns the names of tags and
- Cleaned up the posix extension: (Markus)
. Removed unwanted warning messages
. Added posix_errno() and posix_strerror() for fetching error messages
- . Changed the way posix_getgrnam() and posix_getgrgid() return their values
+ . Changed the way posix_getgrnam() and posix_getgrgid() return their values
(breaks BC but makes more sense)
- . Does not include functions in symbol table which aren't supported on host
- system.
+ . Does not include functions in symbol table which aren't supported on host
+ system.
- Added TIFF support for getimagesize() and read_exif_data(). (Marcus)
-- Changed the Velocis extension namespace to Birdstep to reflect new product
+- Changed the Velocis extension namespace to Birdstep to reflect new product
name. Added aliases for BC. (James)
- Added safe_mode checks for opendir(). (jflemer)
- Changed the 2nd parameter in pgsql_fetch_*() functions to support NULL if
- Added sybase_ct support to dbx module. (Marc)
- Fixed error message handling with PostgreSQL 7.2. (Rui)
- Added object aggregation capability, see aggregation_*() functions. (Andrei)
-- Added debug_zval_dump() which works similarly to var_dump, but displays
+- Added debug_zval_dump() which works similarly to var_dump, but displays
extra internal information such as refcounts and true type names. (Jason)
- Added Andrei's tokenizer extension. (Stig)
- Fixed a bug in the COM extension which caused php to crash in
php_COM_get_ids_of_names(). (Paul, Harald)
- Removed ext/satellite. It is now part of PEAR. (eriksson)
-- Changed php.ini directive 'safe_mode_include_dir' to accept a (semi)colon
+- Changed php.ini directive 'safe_mode_include_dir' to accept a (semi)colon
separated path (like 'include_path') rather than a single directory.
(jflemer)
- Added is_a() function that can be used to test whether object is of a certain
makes these functions to return a highlighted string instead of dumping
it to standard output. (Derick)
- Added EXTR_IF_EXISTS and EXTR_PREFIX_IF_EXISTS flags to extract(). (Rasmus)
-- Fixed a segfault in pg_pconnect(). If PostgreSQL server is restarted, broken
+- Fixed a segfault in pg_pconnect(). If PostgreSQL server is restarted, broken
connection is detected and reconnected. (Yasuo)
- Fixed --enable-safe-mode configure option. (Yasuo)
-- Added function domxml_dump_node($doc,$node). Dumps a node plus all children
+- Added function domxml_dump_node($doc,$node). Dumps a node plus all children
into a string. (chregu)
- Added function domxml_node_get_content(). (chregu)
- Added function domxml_dump_file($filename,[$compression]). Dumps XML to
a file and uses compression, if specified. (chregu)
- Added exslt integration to domxml extension (http://exslt.org for details).
- Configure with --with-dom-exslt[=DIR] (and --with-dom-xslt).
+ Configure with --with-dom-exslt[=DIR] (and --with-dom-xslt).
(chregu,jaroslaw)
- Fixed session_unset() to not touch any globals if register_globals is off.
(Thies)
maximun numer of rows that should be fetched and the format of the
returned array. (Thies)
- Updated the XSLT extension to support Sablotron 0.8. (Petr Cimprich)
-- Fixed a bug in preg_match() and preg_match_all() when matching strings
+- Fixed a bug in preg_match() and preg_match_all() when matching strings
contain null bytes. (Andrei)
-- Added xpath_register_ns() function. This makes it possible to issue XPath
+- Added xpath_register_ns() function. This makes it possible to issue XPath
queries with namespaces like for example: "//namespace:sampletag".
(Chris Jarecki)
- Added multi-byte enabled regular expression functions. (Rui)
size, fix 6852 #1 and 6852 #2). (Vlad)
- Fixed bug in krsort() where an extra character was being compared. (Andi)
- Fixed bug that made pspell include pspell.h from a wrong location. (Vlad)
-- Added function overload in mbstring to add multibyte support for
+- Added function overload in mbstring to add multibyte support for
string and mail functions. (Rui)
- Added flags parameter to preg_grep(). The only flag currently is
PREG_GREP_INVERT that will make the function return entries that
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE to the script environment, improved patch
to send correct MIME types, and added support for /nocache/. (Sascha)
- Fixed several bugs and memleaks in the domxml extension. (Markus)
-- Added var_export() which outputs a representation of a variable as reusable
+- Added var_export() which outputs a representation of a variable as reusable
PHP code. (Derick)
- Added -w option to the CGI-version to strip all comments and whitespace
from the script. (Thies)
- Added support for SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO to ext/sockets. (Jason)
- Added ob_get_level() which returns the nesting level of the output buffering
mechanism. (Yasuo, Derick)
-- Added ob_flush() and ob_clean() functions which flush and clean an output
+- Added ob_flush() and ob_clean() functions which flush and clean an output
buffer without destroying the buffer. (Derick)
-- Added new optional parameter to mysql_connect() which forces a new database
+- Added new optional parameter to mysql_connect() which forces a new database
link to be created. (Markus, Derick)
- Added ldap_sort() function. (Stig Venaas)
- Added md5_file() function which calculates the MD5 sum of a file.
images. (Rasmus)
- Added support for bind_textdomain_codeset(). (rudib@email.si)
- Added generic Win 32 API extension. (jmoore)
-- Removed warning message about NONEXISTENT character set from mysql_connect()
+- Removed warning message about NONEXISTENT character set from mysql_connect()
when the server's default character set != latin1. (Mysql Team)
- Added Direct I/O extension for lowlevel access to the POSIX layer. (Sterling)
- Added SAPI module for the WebJames server on RISC OS. (Alex Waugh)
-- Fixed ldap_add() and ldap_modify() functions to throw a warning with illegal
+- Fixed ldap_add() and ldap_modify() functions to throw a warning with illegal
value arrays. Previously segfaulted or added wrong value. (Stig Venaas)
- Added udm_check_charset() function into mnoGoSearch extension. (gluke)
- Fixed mnoGoSearch extension to support mnogosearch-3.2.x. (gluke)
(Frank)
- Added array_chunk() function which splits an array into chunks of specified
size. (Andrei)
-- Fixed $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA to be populated on a missing content-type when
+- Fixed $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA to be populated on a missing content-type when
always_populate_raw_post_data is on. (Rasmus)
- Added session_cache_expire() function. (patch by anuradha@gnu.org) (Andrei)
- Added array_fill() function. (Rasmus)
-- Made Authorization header to be hidden from phpinfo() output in safe_mode.
+- Made Authorization header to be hidden from phpinfo() output in safe_mode.
(Rasmus)
- Re-instated safe-mode realm mangling. (Rasmus)
- Fixed a bug in preg_replace() that would change the type of the replacement
- Added ldap_start_tls() function. (Stig Venaas, patch by kuenne@rentec.com)
- Changed rand() and mt_rand() to be seed automatically if srand() or
mt_srand() has not been called. (Sterling)
-- Changed the seed options to srand() and mt_srand() to be optional. If the
+- Changed the seed options to srand() and mt_srand() to be optional. If the
seed is not specified the most random seed possible is generated. (Sterling)
-- Added array_change_key_case() function which returns an array with all
+- Added array_change_key_case() function which returns an array with all
string keys lowercased or uppercased. (Edin)
- Added parameter to ircg_pconnect to suppress treating non-fatal errors
as fatal, and added conversion of Windows quotes to ". (Sascha)
- Added pcntl_exec() function which behaves similar to the system execve.
(Jason)
- Fixed segfault and check for truecolor image in ImageColorAt(). (Rasmus)
-- Fixed nl2br() to handle all styles of line-endings in one string.
+- Fixed nl2br() to handle all styles of line-endings in one string.
(Boian, Derick)
- Added mcrypt_generic_deinit() to replace mcrypt_generic_end(). (Derick)
- Added apache_setenv() function for injecting variables into Apache's
(Patch by Matthias Wimmer <matthias@charente.de> and venaas)
- Fixed LONG_VARCHAR type crashing in ODBC extension. Patch by Walter Franzini.
(kalowsky)
-- Changed in_array() and search_array() to allow the needle to be an array
+- Changed in_array() and search_array() to allow the needle to be an array
in itself. (Andrei)
- Added ini_get_all() function which returns all registered ini entries
or entries for the specified extension. (Jani)
-- Added mailparse_uudecode_all() which extracts all uuencoded attachments.
+- Added mailparse_uudecode_all() which extracts all uuencoded attachments.
(Wez)
- Added support for chinese encodings in htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars().
(Patch by Alan Knowles <alan_k@hklc.com> and Wez)
element if it was a scalar one. (Andrei)
- Make ImageColorAt() and ImageColorsForIndex() work with TrueColor images.
(Rasmus)
-- Fixed a bug in preg_match_all() that would return results under improper
+- Fixed a bug in preg_match_all() that would return results under improper
indices in certain cases. (Andrei)
- Fixed a crash in str_replace() that would happen if search parameter was an
array and one of the replacements resulted in subject string being empty.
regardless of the context. (Andi & Zeev)
- Introduced $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER and $_ENV variables, which
deprecate the old $HTTP_*_VARS arrays. In addition to be much shorter to
- type - these variables are also available regardless of the scope, and
+ type - these variables are also available regardless of the scope, and
there's no need to import them using the 'global' statement. (Andi & Zeev)
- Added vprintf() and vsprintf() functions that allow passing all arguments
after format as an array. (Andrei)
- Added optional extra argument to gmp_init(). The extra argument
indicates which number base gmp should use when converting a
string to the gmp-number. (Troels)
-- Added the Cyrus-IMAP extension, which allows a direct interface to Cyrus'
+- Added the Cyrus-IMAP extension, which allows a direct interface to Cyrus'
more advanced capabilities. (Sterling)
- Enhanced read_exif_data() to support multiple comment tags. (Rasmus)
- Fixed a crash bug in array_map() when NULL callback was passed in. (Andrei)
- Added optional second parameter to trim, chop and ltrim. You can
now specify which characters to trim (jeroen)
- Hugely improved the performance of the thread-safe version of PHP, especially
- under Windows (Andi & Zeev)
+ under Windows (Andi & Zeev)
- Improved request-shutdown performance significantly (Andi & Zeev, Zend
Engine)
- Added a few new math functions. (Jesus)
- Fixed return value for a failed snmpset() - now returns false (Rasmus)
- Added hostname:port support to snmp functions (nbougues@axialys.net, Rasmus)
- Added fdf_set_encoding() function (Masaki YATSU, Rasmus)
-- Reversed the destruction-order of resources. This fixes the reported OCI8
+- Reversed the destruction-order of resources. This fixes the reported OCI8
"failed to rollback outstanding transactions!" message (Thies, Zend Engine)
- Added option for returning XMLRPC fault packets. (Matt Allen, Sascha
Schumann)
specified that the drawn curve should be rounded. (Sterling)
- Updated the sockets extension to use resources instead of longs for the
socket descriptors. The socket functions have been renamed to conform with
- the PHP standard instead of their C counterparts. The sockets extension is
+ the PHP standard instead of their C counterparts. The sockets extension is
now usable under Win32. (Daniel)
- Added disk_total_space() to return the total size of a filesystem.
(Patch from Steven Bower)
- Udm_Cat_List and Udm_Cat_Path functions has been added.
- Added key_exists() to check if a given key or index exists in an
array or object. (David Croft)
-- Modify the cURL extension to compile only with the latest cURL release.
- Backwards compatibility with regards to the extension api has not been
+- Modify the cURL extension to compile only with the latest cURL release.
+ Backwards compatibility with regards to the extension api has not been
broken. (Sterling)
- Added the ability to use user-defined callbacks with cURL. (Sterling)
- Added the SSL_VERIFYPEER, CAINFO, MAXREDIRS, FILETIME, RANDOM_FILE, EGDSOCKET
and CONNECTTIMEOUT options to curl_setopt(). (Sterling)
- Added support for persistent connections with cURL. (Sterling)
-- Fixed a problem in cURL with file descriptors being allocated, but never
+- Fixed a problem in cURL with file descriptors being allocated, but never
closed. (Sterling)
- Fixed interactive mode (-a). It works again with the same limitations it
has always had. (Andi, Zend Engine)
30 Apr 2001, Version 4.0.5
- Added new php.ini directive: arg_separator.input which is used to tell
- PHP which characters are considered as argument separators in URLs.
+ PHP which characters are considered as argument separators in URLs.
Renamed php.ini directive: arg_separator -> arg_separator.output (Jani)
- Added FastCGI SAPI module. (Ben Mansell)
- Added array_reduce(), which allows iterative reduction of an array
(Zeev, Zend Engine)
- Implemented high-performance zlib-based output compression - see
zlib.output_compression INI directive. (Zeev)
-- Improved ob_gzhandler() to support chunked output buffering - it's
+- Improved ob_gzhandler() to support chunked output buffering - it's
recommended to use it with 4KB chunks. (Zeev)
- Fixed chunked output buffering. (Zeev)
- Forced call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() to take the
offset. (Andrei)
- Changed 'Z' flag to date() to always return timezone offset with
negative sign if it's west of UTC. (Andrei)
-- Added the HTML_Processor class which provides common functions for
+- Added the HTML_Processor class which provides common functions for
processing HTML. (Sterling)
- Added localeconv() and strcoll() functions for localization. (Sean)
- Added the xslt_set_base function. (Sterling)
- Added support for Zeus 3.3.8.
- Added odbc_error() and odbc_errormsg() functions. (Stig)
- New extension for vpopmail - http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail,
- give it a try, but keep in mind that it is not ready for production
+ give it a try, but keep in mind that it is not ready for production
environments. (David Croft, Boian Bonev)
- Added sybase_get_last_message() to the Sybase CT module. (Jan Fedak)
- Made ldap_list(), ldap_read() and ldap_search() do parallel search when
- Added the is_null() function that will return true if a variable is of
type null. (Sterling)
- Fixed a bug which made readdir() unusable in some systems. (Jani)
-- Added the get_defined_functions() function which returns a list of all
+- Added the get_defined_functions() function which returns a list of all
currently defined functions. (Sterling)
- Added the get_defined_vars() function which returns an associative array
of all variables defined in the current scope and their subsequent values.
- (Sterling)
+ (Sterling)
- Added the call_user_func_array() function which gives you the ability to
call a user function by passing an array of parameters as the second
argument. (Sterling)
affecting modules that were loaded via php.ini (Zeev)
- Fixed a bug in ftp_mkdir() when used on ftp server which doesn't return
the full path (Jani)
-- Added ImageCreateFromString() which creates an image stream out of
+- Added ImageCreateFromString() which creates an image stream out of
e.g. a MySQL blob. (Mathieu)
- Fixed a crash bug in imagewbmp() (Jani)
- Changed the sablot configuration file so that if you use any version of
- Made session_destroy() close files before unlinking (Daniel)
- Added array_sum() function. (Andrei)
- Fixed a bug in session.c. The php_session_save_current_state did not check
- if mod_data is NULL and such situation is possible if the user calls
+ if mod_data is NULL and such situation is possible if the user calls
session_module_name with a parameter. (alex@zend.com)
- Added IIS Admin extension. (Frank)
- OCIBindByName() now does better parameter-checking. (Thies)
- Renamed the shm_* functions to shmop_* (Derick)
- Updated ext/mysql/libmysql to version 3.23 (tim@mysql.com)
- Added ldap_get_option() and ldap_set_option() functions (Stig Venaas)
-- Fixed a crash in CGI mode, in case no file was provided
+- Fixed a crash in CGI mode, in case no file was provided
(Daniel Beulshausen& Zeev)
- Fixed possible crash bug in imap_fetchstructure() (Jani)
- Fixed possible crash bug in imap_open() (Jani & Mark Musone)
- Added the shmop extension. It allows more general ways of shared memory
access. (thanks to Ilia Alshanestky <iliaa@home.com> and Slava Poliakov
<slavapl@mailandnews.com> (Derick)
-- Added the ability for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to accept an associative array of
+- Added the ability for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS to accept an associative array of
HTTP POST variables and values. (Sterling)
- Added the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option to curl_setopt(). (Sterling)
- Added the curl_error() and curl_errno() functions. (Sterling)
method. Instead define yourself a method such as toString() and use
print $obj->toString() (Andi, Zend Engine)
-29 Aug 2000, Version 4.0.2
+29 Aug 2000, Version 4.0.2
- Added PHP API for Zend's ticks. (Stig)
- PHP 3 regression testing framework re-born (Stig)
- Added php_uname() function (Stig)
- Added 4th optional parameter to sybase_[p]connect to specify the charset
for the connection (alf@alpha.ulatina.ac.cr)
- Fixed support for current thttpd releases. (Sascha)
-- Added support for kerberized IMAP library using --with-kerberos
+- Added support for kerberized IMAP library using --with-kerberos
(Rasmus, Sascha)
- Virtualize realpath, chmod, chown and utime (Stas)
- Support content-encoding headers in file upload MIME parts
- Fixed a possible crash in the LDAP modify code. (Eric Kilfoil)
- Fixed a bug in opendir(), which prevented readdir() from working properly if
the $dir argument wasn't explicitly specified (Zeev)
-- Made --enable-discard-path work again. (Andi)
+- Made --enable-discard-path work again. (Andi)
- Removed 8KB limit on line length of the file() function (Zeev)
- Disabled dl() when PHP is being used as a module inside a multithreaded web
server - it didn't work before, and caused weird results (Zeev)
-- Added the ImageColorClosestHWB(), ImageCopyMerge() and ImagePaletteCopy()
+- Added the ImageColorClosestHWB(), ImageCopyMerge() and ImagePaletteCopy()
functions. (Sterling)
- Added ImageCreateFromWBMP() function. (Jouni)
- Fixed problems with POST requests under the NSAPI module. (Roberto Biancardi)
- Updated strtotime() to handle many more formats. It now has complete
feature parity with GNU date command. (Andrei)
- Added support for multiple arguments in unset(). (Faisal, Zend Engine)
-- Functions that expect a resource but are passed something else now return
+- Functions that expect a resource but are passed something else now return
NULL instead of FALSE. (Thies, Zend Engine)
- Fixed gmmktime(), on certain systems it incorrectly adjusted for the timezone
offset and daylight savings time. (Andrei)
standard. If you encounter undefined references to i_zend_is_true and
other symbols, you should enable this. (Sascha, Zend Library)
- Fixed a problem in ldap_add() and ldap_modify(), sometimes added trailing
- garbage to the values (Stig Venaas)
+ garbage to the values (Stig Venaas)
- Fixed a problem with dbmopen() not handing 'c' correctly with dbm/db/ndbm
databases. (JimJag)
- Fixed a crash in number_format() when used with locales. (Andrei)
- Added configure time checking for bcmath package. (Joey, Sascha)
- Added get_declared_classes(). (Andrei, Zend Engine)
- Added initial NSAPI module from Jayakumar Muthukumarasamy. (Rasmus)
-- Added the SWF module which allows you to create Macromedia Flash files via
+- Added the SWF module which allows you to create Macromedia Flash files via
libswf. (Sterling)
- Improved UNIX build system to support more vendor make tools (Sascha)
- Updated natural comparison/sorting algorithm by Martin Pool
- Added --enable-libgcc switch to force linking against libgcc (Sascha)
- Fixed dynamic loading where extension_dir had no trailing slash (Sascha)
- Fixed dynamic loading on OpenBSD (Sascha)
-- Improved POSIX threads check. ZTS works now on at least Linux, Solaris,
+- Improved POSIX threads check. ZTS works now on at least Linux, Solaris,
FreeBSD and OpenBSD (Sascha, TSRM)
- Added !== operator support. (Torben, Zend Engine)
- Fixed getrusage() (Sascha)
- Fixed OCI8 crash when returning cursors from stored-procedures. (Thies)
-21 February 2000 Version 4.0 Beta 4 patch level 1
+21 February 2000 Version 4.0 Beta 4 patch level 1
- Fixed crash when magic_quotes were switched off. (Thies)
- Support for pdflib 2.30 (Uwe)
- Fixed a leak when using automatic output buffering (Zeev)
- Introduced PECL - PHP Extension and Code Library
(prounounced "pickle") (Stig)
-- Fixed inconsistencies in the implementation of here-docs (Andi & Zeev, Zend
+- Fixed inconsistencies in the implementation of here-docs (Andi & Zeev, Zend
library)
- Fixed a problem with constant class-member initializations (Andi & Zeev,
Zend Engine)
- Fixed selecting nested-tables in OCI8. (Thies)
- RFC-854 fix for internal FTP-Code. Commands have to end in "\r\n" (Thies)
- Fixed OpenLink ODBC support (Stig)
-- min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort(),k[r]sort() now work consistent with the
+- min(),max(),a[r]sort(),[r]sort(),k[r]sort() now work consistent with the
language-core. (Thies)
- tempnam() now uses mkstemp() if available (Stig)
- serialize() and var_dump() now honor the precision as set in php.ini
- Ported range() and shuffle() from PHP 3 to PHP 4 (Andrei)
- Fixed header("HTTP/..."); behaviour (Sascha)
- Improved UNIX build system. Now utilizes libtool (Sascha)
-- Upgrade some more internal functions to use new Zend function API. (Thies,
+- Upgrade some more internal functions to use new Zend function API. (Thies,
Zend Engine)
- Fixed backwards incompatibility with ereg() (Thies)
- Updated Zend garbage collection with a much more thorough method.
- Updated preg_replace() so that if any argument passed in is an array
it will make a copy of each entry before converting it to string so that
the original is intact. If the subject is an array then it will preserve
- the keys in the output as well (Andrei)
+ the keys in the output as well (Andrei)
- Updated OCI8 to use the new high-performance Zend function API. (Thies)
- Configure speedup (Stig)
- Fixed LOB/Persistent-Connection related OCI8-Crash (Thies)
high-performance Zend function API. (Zeev)
- Added support for the Easysoft ODBC-ODCB Bridge (martin@easysoft.com)
- Fixed bug in odbc_setoption, getParameter call incorrect (martin@easysoft.com)
-- Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies)
+- Ora_Fetch_Into now resets the returned array in all cases (Thies)
- Fixed NULL-Column problem in Oracle-Driver (Thies)
- Added extra metadata functions to ODBC, SQLTables etc (nick@easysoft.com)
- Fixed SEGV in mcal make_event_object() and
- Resourcified XML (Thies)
- Fixed a memory leak in the Apache per-directory directives handler (Zeev)
- Added array_count_values() function. (Thies)
-- snmp, pgsql, mysql and gd modules can be built as dynamically loaded
+- snmp, pgsql, mysql and gd modules can be built as dynamically loaded
modules (Greg)
- OCI8 fix for fetching empty LOBs (Thies)
- Added user-level callbacks for session module (Sascha)
- Fixed unserializing objects (Thies)
- PHP 4.0 now serializes Objects as 'O' (not understood by PHP 3.0), but
unserializes PHP 3.0 serialized objects as expected. (Thies)
-- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is known at
+- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is known at
unserialize() time, you'll get back a fully working object! (Thies)
- Reworked preg_* functions according to the new PCRE API, which also made
them behave much more like Perl ones (Andrei)
- count()/is_array/is_object... speedups. (Thies)
- OCI8 supports appending and positioning when saving LOBs (Thies)
- Added metaphone support (Thies)
-- OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies)
+- OCI8 doesn't use define callbacks any longer. (Thies)
- OCI8 Driver now supports LOBs like PHP 3.0. (Thies)
- var_dump now dumps the properties of an object (Thies)
- Rewrote the GET/POST/Cookie data reader to support multi-dimensional
- Added session_unset() function (Andrei)
- Fixed double session globals shutdown crash (Andrei)
- Fixed crash related to ignore_user_abort ini entry (Andrei)
-- Added support for external entropy sources for session id creation
+- Added support for external entropy sources for session id creation
(on Unices /dev/random and /dev/urandom) (Sascha)
- Added gpc_globals variable directive to php.ini. By default it is On, but
if it is set to Off, GET, POST and Cookie variables will not be inserted
- Fixed implicit connect on the MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase
modules (Zeev)
- Gave PHP 4.0's SNMP extension all the functionality of PHP 3.0.12 (SteveL)
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July 19 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 1
- First public beta of PHP 4.0
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