Deprecated functions
[email protected] (Tjerk Meesters)
| Newsgroups | php.internals |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi,
When I was fixing test cases on my `kill-ereg` branch I noticed a Reflection test case for `ReflectionFunction::isDeprecated()`.
The problem with such a test case is that you’d be chasing deprecated functions to tests against as we move along; this is the current list of deprecated functions as taken from a typical 5.4 installation:
Since 4.1.0: call_user_method, call_user_method_array
Since 4.3.7: mysql_list_tables, mysql_listtables
Since 5.3 : ereg, ereg_replace, eregi, eregi_replace, split, spliti, sql_regcase, mysql_db_query, magic_quotes_runtime, set_magic_quotes_runtime, set_socket_blocking
Since 5.4 : mysql_list_dbs
The above are, as far as I’m concerned, all potential candidates for removal in PHP 7, so in order to reliably test a deprecated function I would suggest introducing a hidden function with this signature:
void __deprecated__() { }
And mark that function as eternally deprecated using the ZEND_ACC_DEPRECATED flag.
Thoughts?