Hello,
While testing pecl/filter, I noticed that many tests fail. Many of the
errors are related to the FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP mode.
This mode uses pcre natively to compile and execute the give regex. It
is not compatible with the php pcre extension, which makes its usage a
bit tricky, to port existing applications is even more annoying.
Here is a first patch:
http://pear.php.net/~pierre/filter_pcre.txt
It uses pcre_get_compiled_regex from ext/pcre to compile the regex and
fixes a little bug (matches can zero, see the comment).
The benefits are:
- compatible with ext/pcre
- use of the compiled expressions cache
It would also be nice if every additions to ext/filter will use the
ext/pcre API.
--Pierre
