Re: [phplib] phplib 4 From: Maxim Derkachev (kot <email protected>)
Date: 02/20/01

Hello Thomas,

Tuesday, February 20, 2001, 6:24:21 AM, you wrote:

TTT> i'm browsing through the cvs directory of phplib. i'm planning on using
TTT> phplib for an open source project that will need to support php 3 and
TTT> 4. however, there are php 4 related file scattered in

TTT> phplib/php
TTT> phplib/php/session
TTT> phplib/php/phplib-4

Indeed, there are 3 (at least in the current PHPLib CVS) efforts
currently. The first was Teo's class, it is in the
php/session/session4.inc. The second was Brian's - that's all the
stuff in phplib-4. The both use native php4 sessions with native
storage - mm and files session storage modules.
The third was mine - it's in the php/session/session4_custom.inc.
I rewrote some code there (while haven't changed the API) to let
people use not only native php4 storage containers, but also PHPLib's
CT_* storage containers (mysql, etc.).
The differences between this class and the PHPLib 7.2's Session
are covered in a README_session4_custom in the php/session directory.

TTT> for instance, there seems to be 2 user4.inc files and v4.0 session files
TTT> in both ./session and ./phplib-4.

The Brian's user4 is in the php/phplib4. Mine in the php/. I wrote
this because the old user class is not compatible with my Session
variant because of the changes in serialize() and thaw(). I also
rewrote serialize() and thaw() in the user4 to make it work a lot
faster under php4.

TTT> in addition, the files in phplib/stuff seems to be outdated. the sql
TTT> table schemas in v 7.2c seem to be more up to date. i'm just wondering why
TTT> everything in cvs is so scattered.

The work on merge PHPLib into PEAR should be done in this year. Some
stuff from the CVS will migrate to PEAR, some won't.
I doubt that all the stuff in the CVS are of production quality. E.g.,
db stuff is in the mess. You need to use stable release (currently
7.2c). It also could contain bugs (I guess there should be some
analyses of the bugs discovered lately), but I don't think they are
critical. You can use new Session classes for PHP4, of course, they
should work with other PHPLib 7.2c parts. 

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Maxim Derkachev mailto:kot <email protected>
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