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Add preg_replace_callback_array function
Before 5.5.0, we can use the '/e' modifier. Here is a piece of code with 5.4.x:
Allow Generator delegation in PHP7
Yes
25 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Constructor behaviour of internal classes
Several internal classes in extensions that ship with PHP exhibit some highly surprising behaviour. This RFC has two aims:
Constructor behaviour of internal classes
Yes
32 Votes (97%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Reclassify E_STRICT notices
This RFC proposes to reclassify the few existing E_STRICT notices and remove this error category.
Reclassify E_STRICT notices as described in this RFC?
Yes
28 Votes (88%)
No
4 Votes (13%)
Easy User-land CSPRNG
This RFC proposes adding a user-land API for an easy to use and reliable CSPRNG in PHP.
Reliable user-land CSPRNG
Yes
41 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
reserve_more_types_in_php_7
Yes
40 Votes (95%)
No
2 Votes (5%)
Allow Generator return expressions in PHP7
Yes
33 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Accept Scalar Type Declarations With Optional Strict Mode?
Yes
108 Votes (69%)
No
48 Votes (31%)
Context Sensitive Lexer
PHP currently has around 64 globally reserved words.
Not infrequently, these reserved words end up clashing with legit alternatives to userland API declarations...
Should PHP7 have a context sensitive lexer?
Yes
36 Votes (75%)
No
12 Votes (25%)
Fix "foreach" behavior
The behavior of foreach statement in PHP for some edge cases is not exactly defined. Actually, it is implementation driven and quite weird.
Fix foreach behavoir?
Yes
34 Votes (97%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Stop using internal array/object pointer in foreach by reference?
Yes
34 Votes (97%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Group Use Declarations
This RFC aims to improve current PHP namespace implementation by introducing the concept of Group Use Declarations:
Should Grouped Use Declarations be added to PHP 7
Yes - with a trailing "\"
32 Votes (55%)
Yes - without a trailing "\"
7 Votes (12%)
No
19 Votes (33%)
Remove the date.timezone warning
PHP should be usable without configuring it through either an ini file or defining settings on the command line. Currently this is not possible as the date.time...
Should the warning about a not set date.timezone ini setting be removed in master?
Yes
32 Votes (74%)
No
11 Votes (26%)
Turn gc_collect_cycles into function pointer
This RFC proposes to change gc_collect_cycles into a hookable function pointer.
The goal is to allow extensions to hook into garbage collection for profiling.
Turn gc_collect_cycles into function pointer?
Yes
18 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Replacing current json extension with jsond
The current Json Parser in the json extension does not have a free license which is a problem for many Linux distros. This has been referenced at Bug #63520. Th...
Should jsond based extension replace the current json extension in PHP 7?
Yes
32 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Preserve Fractional Part in JSON encode
This RFC suggests adding a new option to json_encode function to keep the fractional part on float values.
Preserve Fractional Part in JSON encode
Yes
14 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax
Despite the wide and increasing adoption of Unicode (and UTF-8 in particular) in PHP applications, PHP does not yet have a Unicode codepoint escape syntax in st...
Accept the Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax RFC and merge into master?
Yes
23 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Remove PHP 4 Constructors
PHP 4 constructors are methods that have the same name as the class they are defined in. PHP 5 preserved the ability to use PHP 4 style constructors in some cas...
remove_php4_constructors
Yes
50 Votes (93%)
No
4 Votes (7%)
Exceptions in the engine (for PHP 7)
This RFC proposes to allow the use of exceptions in the engine and to allow the replacement of existing fatal or recoverable fatal errors with exceptions.
Allow exceptions in the engine and conversion of existing fatals?
Yes
60 Votes (97%)
No
2 Votes (3%)
Introduce and use BaseException?
Yes
39 Votes (67%)
No
19 Votes (33%)
ZPP Failure on Overflow
PHP is a weakly-typed language, and so implicitly converts between integers and floats when such values are passed to internal functions. Currently, when a floa...
Accept the ZPP Failure on Overflow RFC and merge into master?
Yes
16 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7
This RFC proposes to remove functionality which has been deprecated during the 5.x cycle.
Unbundle the ext/ereg extension?
Yes
37 Votes (93%)
No
3 Votes (8%)
Unbundle the ext/mysql extension?
Yes
28 Votes (70%)
No
12 Votes (30%)
Remove assignment of new by reference?
Yes
31 Votes (84%)
No
6 Votes (16%)
Remove support for calls from incompatible context?
Yes
34 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove dl() in fpm-fcgi SAPI?
Yes
32 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove (set_)magic_quotes_runtime() functions?
Yes
36 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove listed deprecated functions?
Yes
31 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove xsl.security_prefs ini directive?
Yes
28 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove extension specific encoding ini directives?
Yes
26 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove $is_dst parameter of the mktime() and gmmktime() functions?
Yes
28 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove support for #-style comments in ini files?
Yes
27 Votes (87%)
No
4 Votes (13%)
Disallow string category names in setlocale()?
Yes
27 Votes (96%)
No
1 Votes (4%)
Disallow enabling unsafe curl uploads?
Yes
19 Votes (76%)
No
6 Votes (24%)
Remove preg_replace() eval modifier?
Yes
33 Votes (97%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Remove PDO::PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT driver option?
Yes
20 Votes (80%)
No
5 Votes (20%)
Remove CN_match and SNI_server_name stream context options?
Yes
20 Votes (80%)
No
5 Votes (20%)
Fix list() behavior inconsistency
According to PHP documentation list() construct doesn't work with strings.
However in some cases it works.
Fix list() behavior inconsistency?
don't fix
0 Votes (0%)
disable string handling in all cases
17 Votes (52%)
enable string handling in all cases
16 Votes (48%)
Null Coalesce Operator
PHP is a web-focussed programming language, so processing user data is a frequent activity. In such processing it is common to check for something's existence, ...
Approve Null Coalesce Operator RFC and merge patch into master?
Yes
31 Votes (91%)
No
3 Votes (9%)
Integer Semantics
This RFC improves cross-platform consistency in PHP for some operations dealing with integers, and makes PHP's behaviour more intuitive, as well as partly pavin...
Accept the integer semantics RFC and merge patch into master?
Yes
16 Votes (67%)
No
8 Votes (33%)
Remove hex support in numeric strings
This RFC proposes to remove support for hexadecimal numers in is_numeric_string. Support for hex in this function is inconsistent with behavior in other places ...
Remove hex support in numeric strings?
Yes
29 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Uniform Variable Syntax
This RFC proposes the introduction of an internally consistent and complete variable syntax. To achieve this goal the
semantics of some rarely used variable-var...
Implement Uniform Variable Syntax in PHP 6?
Yes
30 Votes (97%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Fast Parameter Parsing API
PHP internal functions use zend_parse_parameters() API to receive values of actual parameters into C variables. This function uses scanf() like approach for par...
Should PHP 7 have Fast Parameter Parsing API?
Yes
19 Votes (95%)
No
1 Votes (5%)
Fix handling of custom session handler return values
The logic in ext/session/mod_user.c is just plain wrong.
Fix custom session save handler using the patch as written
Yes
10 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Which version?
5.6 or later
0 Votes (0%)
5.7 or later
9 Votes (75%)
6.0 or later
3 Votes (25%)
Return Type Declarations
Many developers would like to be able to declare the return type of a function. The basic idea of declaring a return type has been included in at least three RF...
Typed Returns
Yes
47 Votes (94%)
No
3 Votes (6%)
Expectations
The assertion statement has the prototype:
Merge changes into master?
Yes, with custom exceptions
29 Votes (66%)
Yes, without custom exceptions
14 Votes (32%)
No
1 Votes (2%)
Anonymous Classes
For some time PHP has featured anonymous function support in the shape of Closures; this patch introduces the same kind of functionality for objects of an anony...
Anonymous Classes
Yes
50 Votes (96%)
No
2 Votes (4%)
Filtered unserialize()
unserialize() in PHP has certain security issues, brought by the fact that serialized data can
include objects with data, and once these objects are instantiate...
Approve filtered unserialize() proposal?
Yes
17 Votes (74%)
No
6 Votes (26%)