Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecated functions

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Tjerk Meesters
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

This sounds like a much better solution than what we have. The only
way the test could be less brittle is if you could define a function
and deprecate it in userland as part of the test. Since we don't have
that capability and don't think we should add it I say +1.