php-src/ChangeLog

PHP 4.0 CHANGE LOG                                                    ChangeLog
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??? ?? 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 2
- Fixed md5() in the Apache module (Thies)
- Introduced build process for dynamic modules (Stig)
- Improved ISAPI module to supprt large server variables (Zeev)
- Imported PHP 3.0 fixes for problem with PHP as a dynamic module and Redhat
  libc2.1 in zlib module (Stefan)
- Fixed sybase_fetch_object() (Zeev)
- Made the IMAP module work with PHP 4.0 (Zeev)
- Fixed a problem with include()/require() of URLs (Sascha, Zeev)
- Fixed a bug in implode() that caused it to corrupt its arguments (Zeev)
- Added get_class($obj), get_parent_class($obj) and method_exists($obj,"name")
  (Andi & Zeev)
- Fixed various inheritance problems (Andi & Zeev, Zend library)
- Children now inherit their parent's constructor, if they do not supply a
  constructor of their own.
- Fixed runtime inheritence of classes (parent methods/properties were
  overriding their children) (Zeev, Zend library)
- Fixed backwards incompatibility with the "new" operator (Andi, Zend library)
- Fixed bugs in uksort() and ksort() sort ordering (Andrey)
- Fixed a memory leak when using assignment-op operators with lvalue of type
  string (Zeev, Zend library)
- Fixed a problem in inheritence from classes that are defined in include()d
  files (Zeev, Zend library)
- Fixed a problem with the PHP error handler that could result in a crash
  on certain operating systems (Zeev)
- Apache php_flag values only recognized 'On' (case sensitive) - changed
  to case insensitive (Zeev)
- Fixed a memory leak with switch statement containing return statements
  (Andi & Zeev, Zend library)
- Fixed a crash problem in switch statements that had a string offset
  as a conditional (Andi & Zeev, Zend library)
- Imported PHP 3.0 fixes for rand() and mt_rand() (Rasmus)
- Added function entries for strip_tags() and similar_text() (Andrey)
- Fixed a bug in WDDX that would cause a crash if a number was passed in
  instead of a variable name (Andrey)
- Ported strtotime() function from PHP 3.0 (Andrey)
- Merged in gdttf stuff from php3 (Sascha)
- buildconf now checks your installation (Stig)
- XML module now built dynamically with --with-xml=shared (Stig)
- Added a check for freetype.h - fixed build on RedHat 6.0 (Zeev)
- Fixed array_walk() to work in PHP 4.0 (Andrey)
- Ported all remaining date() format options from PHP 3.0 (Andrey)
- $php_errormsg now works (Andrey)
- Added locale support for Perl Compatible Regexp functions (Andrey)
- Informix module ported (Danny)
- Removed --with-shared-apache (Sascha)
- Added patch for reverse lookup table in base64_decode (Sascha)
  Submitted by bfranklin@dct.com
- Merged in php3 version of str_replace (Sascha)
- Added DBA module (Sascha)
- Added session id detection within REQUEST_URI (Sascha)
- Merged in HP-UX/ANSI compatibility switch from php3 (Sascha)
- Fixed rpath handling for utilitites built during Apache build (Sascha)
- Added missing E_ error level constants (Zeev, Zend library)
- Fixed a bug in sending multiple HTTP Cookies under Apache (Zeev)
- Fixed implicit connect on the MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase
  modules (Zeev)
- Gave PHP 4.0's SNMP extension all the functionality of PHP 3.0.12 (SteveL)
  
  
July 19 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 1
- First public beta of PHP 4.0