- Cleaned this abit (no such long stuff should be here if it can be found

in Manual...and if it's not in manual yet, ADD IT!
- Also moved some of the major changes in the beginning where people
  might even notice them. We should re-arrange this better btw.
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?? ??? 2002, Version 4.2.0
- Added CLI (command line intrerface) sapi based on a cut-down version
of the CGI sapi which is more suited for writing shell scripts. Some of
the differences are: it prints no HTTP headers, displays plain text
error messages, does not change working directory, etc. "make install"
will install CLI SAPI version of php in {PREFIX}/bin/php while
CGI is renamed and installed as {PREFIX}/bin/php-cgi. (Edin)
- Clean up posix extension (no more unwanted warning messages, introduce
posix_errno() and posix_strerror() for fetching error messages); changed the
way posix_getgrnam() and posix_getgrgid() return their values (breaks BC but
makes more sense); do not include functions in symbol table which aren't
supported on host system. (Markus)
- TIFF support for GetImageSize (Marcus)
- Fixed HTTP file upload support to handle big files better. (Jani)
- Added TIFF support for getimagesize(). (Marcus)
- Added TIFF support for read_exif_data(). (Marcus)
- Changed the Velocis extension namespace to Birdstep to reflect new product
name. Added aliases for BC. (James)
- Added test.php/txt to have a possibility to check ext/exif
(Marcus)
- Added TIFF support
Changed parameters after checking bugdatabase and discussion with Rasmus
1st=Filename, 2nd=NeededSections
If the 2nd parameter is not present or 0 or '' the function will return
a result array even if no data was read from file.
If the 2nd parameter is a string then that string describes which
sections have to be present in the file to generate a result array.
If none of the needed section is found the result will be false.
Section strings are "ANY_TAG","IFD0","COMMENT","EXIF","GPS","INTEROP"
"FPIX","APP12". Each string has to be separated by a colon. So
"COMMENT,EXIF" returns an array if either a comment or an Exif
section is present. "IFD0" is standard datastructure in a TIFF/JPEG
file that contains image information. "EXIF" is the Exif structure
of TIFF/JPEG (IFD0 subdirectory). "GPS", "INTEROP", "FPIX", "APP12"
are additional IFD0 subdirectories. The APP12 support is an
experimental Olympus support.
(Marcus)
- Added safe_mode checks for opendir(). (jflemer)
- Make the 2nd parameter to pgsql_fetch_* support NULL in case 3
parameters are supplied, but you do not want to provide a row number
yourself. (Derick)
- Improved iconv with libc's iconv. (Yasuo)
- Make the 2nd parameter to pgsql_fetch_* support NULL in case 3 parameters
are supplied, but you do not want to provide a row number yourself. (Derick)
- Improved iconv() when using libc's iconv. (Yasuo)
- Added PHP_SAPI constant which contains the name of running SAPI. (Edin)
- Added ob_get_status() to get array of buffers and it's status. (Yasuo)
- Fixed crash bug with ob_end_*() function. ob_end_*() will not delete
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internal information such as refcounts and true type names. (Jason)
- Added Andrei's tokenizer extension. (Stig)
- Removed ext/satellite. It is now part of PEAR. (eriksson)
- Changed php.ini directive 'safe_mode_include_dir' to accept a
(semi)colon separated path (like 'include_path') rather than
a single directory. (jflemer)
- Changed php.ini directive 'safe_mode_include_dir' to accept a (semi)colon
separated path (like 'include_path') rather than a single directory.
(jflemer)
- Added is_a() function that can be used to test whether object is of a certain
class or is derived from it. (Andrei, Zend Engine)
- Added optional parameter to highlight_string and highlight_file which
- Added optional parameter to highlight_string() and highlight_file() which
makes these functions return a highlighted string instead of dumping
to standard output. (Derick)
- Added EXTR_IF_EXISTS and EXTR_PREFIX_IF_EXISTS flags to extract()
EXTR_IF_EXISTS only extracts a variable if it already exists
EXTR_PREFIX_IF_EXISTS only extracts the variable if it exists and
then it prepends the prefix to it. ie. if $PATH exists then
extract($_ENV,EXTR_PREFIX_IF_EXISTS,'e') would result in $e_PATH
This lets you do $a = $b = $c = true; extract($_REQUEST,EXTR_IF_EXISTS);
and you only get the global request variables you have defined imported
into your symbol table. (Rasmus)
- Added EXTR_IF_EXISTS and EXTR_PREFIX_IF_EXISTS flags to extract(). (Rasmus)
- Fixed pg_pconnect(). It catches broken connection and reconnects to
PostgreSQL server always. When PostgreSQL is rebooted, web server reboot is
not needed to avoid errors. (Yasuo)
- Fix --enable-safe-mode. This configure option was not working. (Yasuo)
- Added function domxml_dump_node($doc,$node). Dumps a node plus all
children into a string. (chregu)
- Added function domxml_dump_node($doc,$node). Dumps a node plus all children
into a string. (chregu)
- Added function domxml_node_get_content(). (chregu)
- Added function domxml_dump_file($filename,[$compression]). Dumps XML to
a file and uses compression, if specified. (chregu)
- Added exslt integration (see http://exslt.org for details). To be
configured with --with-dom-exslt[=DIR] (and --with-dom-xslt). (chregu,
jaroslaw)
- Added exslt integration (see http://exslt.org for details). To be configured
with --with-dom-exslt[=DIR] (and --with-dom-xslt). (chregu,jaroslaw)
- Don't touch any globals in session_unset() if register_globals is set
to off. (Thies)
- Added 3 new optional parameters to OCIFetchStatement(). They control
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- Fixed a bug in preg_match()/preg_match_all() when matching strings containing
null bytes. (Andrei)
- Added xpath_register_ns() function. This makes it possible to issue XPath
queries with namespaces like for example: "//namespace:sampletag" .
queries with namespaces like for example: "//namespace:sampletag".
(Chris Jarecki)
- Added multi-byte enabled regular expression functions. (Rui)
- Added second parameter to count() that can be used to specify either normal
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- Added async query functions to PostgreSQL module. (Yasuo)
- Added pg_copy_to()/pg_copy_from() for PostgreSQL module. (Youichi, Yasuo)
- Added IPv6 support in FTP extension. (Stig Venaas)
- Added CLI (command line intrerface) sapi based on a cut-down version
of the CGI sapi which is more suited for writing shell scripts. Some of
the differences are: it prints no HTTP headers, displays plain text
error messages, does not change working directory, etc. "make install"
will install CLI SAPI version of php in {PREFIX}/bin/php while
CGI is renamed and installed as {PREFIX}/bin/php-cgi. (Edin)
- Improved the speed of wordwrap() significantly. (Jim)
- Fixed pow()'s incorrect behaviour when dealing with powers of 0. (Jim)
- Added is_finite(), is_infinite(), and is_nan(). (Jim)
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- Fixed mnoGoSearch extension to support mnogosearch-3.2.x. (gluke)
- Made fbsql_num_rows() to return the correct value on all select statements.
(Frank)
- Fixed HTTP file upload support to handle big files better. (Jani)
- Added array_chunk() function that splits an array into chunks of specified
size. (Andrei)
- Fixed a bug which caused $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA not to be populated on a missing