Re: [phplib-users] PHP 5.2 and PHPlib

[Frank B. <fb...@sy...>]

Layne Weathers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> whoever might be out there...
>>
>> I just downloaded Richard Archer's version 7.4a from the 
>> internet. Then remembering that I would find phplib's source 
>> also on SourceForge...
>>
>> Anyway, having checked its bugtracker I verified that phplib is 
>> full of HTTP_POST_VARS and similar things. That's just 
>> frightening now that I wanted to port my application to PHP5 
>> where these VARs don't exist anymore.
> 
> 
> Marko,
> 
> I don't know about Richard's release - AFAIK the best, most 
> up-to-date is using the php-lib-stable repository branch. In 
> January 2007, I committed changes that only used the HTTP_*_VARS 
> form when the superglobals were not present - you might want to 
> double-check the source code to see if this is the case. E.g. 
> session.inc, lines 92-98:
>      if (!isset($_POST)) {
>        global $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS, $HTTP_GET_VARS, 
> $HTTP_POST_VARS, $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
>        $_COOKIE = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS;
>        $_POST   = $HTTP_POST_VARS;
>        $_GET    = $HTTP_GET_VARS;
>        $_SERVER = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS;
>      }
> 
> This pattern allowed for backwards compatibility (pre-4.1) and 
> allows you to run without the long vars arrays support.
> 



I'm wondering if 7.2b is warranted; that includes those changes?

I'm almost completed complete removal of phplib from my apps; but I've 
often wondered why there was never a release after those Jan.2007 changes.