Re: [PHP-DEV] Consistent case-insensitive module registry lookups

Hi,

On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 at 17:42, Weilin Du <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi internals,
>
> Now we have four functions that interact with extension name. ini_get_all() extension_loaded()
> phpversion() and get_extension_funcs(). Among those, only ini_get_all is case-sensitive. That is:
>
> extension_loaded('Pcre') // ok
> get_extension_funcs('Pcre') // ok
> phpversion('Pcre') // ok
> ini_get_all('Pcre') // not ok
>
> As proposed in GH-23293 [1] it is good to have ini_get_all consistent with other functions, that
> is, to be case-insensitive in extension names. As per our current policy [2] A core developer
> (David) requests that the feature to be discussed on the internals mailing list to make sure that
> no one objects in the two-week period before this is merged.

note I did not necessarily imply it needs to land for 8.6 :)

>
> Feel free to provide feedback if you think this change isn't reasonable or could cause
> compatibility issues :)
>
> Weilin
>
> [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/23293
> [2] https://github.com/php/policies/blob/main/release-process.rst#feature-selection-and-development
>