About php's past, present, changes and what's coming in the next release.

1. O PHP, Where Art Thou?
Pierre Joye
2012/09/08

2. Pierre Joye
@pierrejoye
pierre@php.net
PHP Core developer
Contributors to numerous OSS projects
Works with the ex-Dark Force
Portability fan

3. Any PHP users around?

4. Which version?

5. Contributors already?

6. The Bad

7. • Slow release cycles
• Unsecure
• Hard or impossible to contribute
• Dicatorship, egomaniacs, nein sager
• Closed community

8. The Good

9. RFC process
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/voting
• Anyone can submit a RFC
• Votes
– Communities
– php.net members
• If accepted, released in php-next (<= 1 year)

10. Release Process
• Security only releases
• Bugs fixes releases every 1-2 months (~)
• Yearly releases with new features (i.e. 5.4)
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess

11. On Security

12. Some Security Team Members

13. 2012/01 to 2012/04
Xinchen Hui 126
83 Very Old guy }:->
Gustavo Andre 79
dos Santos Lopes
73 Not Very Old guy
(yet)
Anatoliy Belsky 62

14. No more excuses!
contribute!

18. David Soria Parra
http://pear.php.net/user/dsp/wishlist
@dsp_

21. 5.5

22. PBKDF2
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/hash_pbkdf2
hash_pbkdf2('sha256', 'passwordP§%P4s$', 'saltSALTsaltSALTsaltSALTsaltSALTsalt', 4096, 40)
See also:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2898.txt
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-132/nist-sp800-132.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

23. Simple Password API
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_hash

24. Getter/Setter
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-as-implemented

25. Generator
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators

26. Generator

27. Generator

28. Generator

29. Generator

30. foreach and list

31. YAAR!
(array_column)

32. Fixing empty()
empty($this->getFriends())

33. $INTL->awesomeness++;
• IntlCalendar
• IntlGregorianCalendar
• IntlTimeZone
• IntlBreakIterator
• IntlRuleBasedBreakIterator
• IntlCodePointBreakIterator

34. Fully qualified classname

35. Parameter skipping
function create_query(
$where,
$order_by,
$join_type='',
$execute = false,
$report_errors = true) {
...
}

36. Parameter skipping
create_query("deleted=0",
"name", default, default,
false);

37. Finally!
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally

38. Questions?