[PHP] PHP Weekly Summary (Issue 3) From: lists <email protected>
Date: 09/17/00

PHP Weekly Summary (Issue 3 : 2000/09/11 - 2000/09/17)
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Each heading is prefixed by the following -
NEW: new code being added.
TLK: general talk.
BUG: a bug being discussed.
FIX: maintenance work.
REQ: feature request.

Table of Contents:
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FIX: PHP 3.0.17 + 4.0.3 Release Candidates
REQ: PHP extension documentation (cont.)
BUG: SRADV00001, PHP file upload security vulnerability (cont.)
TLK: suggested naming conventions
REQ: named output buffers
BUG: doc_root problems

FIX: PHP 3.0.17 + 4.0.3 Release Candidates
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Zeev Suraski announced (http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/5/500/4321292/)
the availability of the first release candidates for the latest iterations
of both PHP 3 + 4. Everyone who has the ability to run a test setup might
like to try them, so as to ensure the highest quality for the build on
release.

REQ: PHP extension documentation (cont.)
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Following on from last weeks discussion, Joey Smith forwarded a message to
the list which he received from Andi Gutmans (see it here:
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/5/475/4321823/). By the sounds of
it, there will be some new documentation available ASAP that will help
people with the creation of their extensions.

For those who can't wait, Sterling Hughes has his presentation notes for
the ApacheCon conference available. (see
here: http://conf.php.net/pres/index.php?p=slides%2Fextending&id=apachecon)
I personally found them extremely useful.

BUG: SRADV00001, PHP file upload security vulnerability (cont.)
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Zeev Suraski posted a message to the list
(see: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/5/450/4322489/
regarding the resolution of the above issue. It is very well written, and
i recommend that everyone who hasn't read it yet to do so.

TLK: suggested naming conventions
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Ron Chmara brought up the issue of current naming conventions, and how
they could possibly be improved. (see
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/5/325/4329048/).

REQ: named output buffers
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Andrei Zmievski made an interesting post regarding the possibility of
multiple output buffers (see
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/5/125/4337719/).

After a bit of back-and-forthing between Chuck Hagenbuch and Zeev S.
though, it seems that there is already support in PHP for this feature.
(albeit, the multiple buffers are unnamed). It is also possible to create
a callback function that will be executed when output buffering ends,
rather then just sending out the contents of the buffer.

BUG: doc_root problems
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A number of users had been reporting problems in 4.0.1pl2 + 4.0.2
regarding doc_root + safe_mode. Andi Gutmans has created a fix for this
which is now in CVS, and will make its way into 4.0.3. 

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A little bit quieter on the list this week (in terms of discussion
anyway) as things wind up (down?) towards the next PHP release.

Traffic was less than half of last weeks total, with most of it being the
QA team hammering away diligently on getting bugs closed.

looking forward to next week 8^),

- avi lewin

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