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We want PDO! Don’t we? - Marcus Brger

So after the initial uproar on last week’s attempts to put parts of PHP development under the terms of a CLA (read proposal here), a bunch of us actually spent some time in finding solutions for one way or the other. I don’t want to bother you with more details on the why.
But, one thing […]

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PDO to turn PHP into closed software development? - Marcus Brger

These are my very private thoughts on what is going on with PDO.First of all, having decent database support is becoming more and more important to PHP because there is hardly any PHP application left that does not have some kind of database backend. And for that exact reason, a few people started PDO some […]

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Whether to INI or not - Marcus Brger

So I’ve had enough of different PHP versions compiled in different modes (ZTS or DEGBUG) and having to change the php.ini file every now and then on my dev machines. So I added conditional INI support:
[IF (ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD == true) && (ZEND_THREAD_SAFE == true)]zend_extension_debug_ts=/usr/src/${PHP_BRANCH}/xdebug.so[ELSEIF ZEND_DEBUG_BUILD == true]zend_extension_debug=/usr/src/${PHP_BRANCH}/xdebug.so[ELSEIF ZEND_THREAD_SAFE == true]zend_extension_ts=/usr/src/${PHP_BRANCH}/xdebug.so[ELSE]zend_extension=/usr/src/${PHP_BRANCH}/modules/xdebug.so
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PHP once again to participate in GSoC - Marcus Brger

I am very happy that this year PHP once again got selected as a mentoring project in the Google Summer of Code Program.
The PHP team already put up a list of ideas that students could pick up. Of course students are also more than welcome to propose their own ideas. Either way student applications start […]

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PHP on RE2C - Marcus Brger

Finally.
After years on working on RE2C to make it stable and ready to replace flex-based scanners, work on replacing PHP’s flex-based scanner with a RE2C-based one has begun. Actually the work was started by Nuno Lopes and Scott MacVicar on 14th of February 2008, after I happily informed them that I considered RE2C ready for […]

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