Zend Weekly Summaries Issue #21

BUG: Multi-dimensional “form” elements
REQ: OOP “parent”
NEW: PHPLIB to be merged into PEAR
NEW: EXTENSIONS file updated
TLK: Advanced data types for PHP
NEW: patch for BeOS

BUG: Multi-dimensional “form” elements

Sascha Schumann found an "http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200101/msg02631.html">interesting issue
this week with multi-dimensional form elements bring translated to
variables. Sascha quickly followed up with a one line fix. It is already in the CVS,
and will be in the next release version. If you are experiencing difficulties due to
the problems outlined in Sascha’s post, you might like to try a "http://snaps.php.net/">CVS snapshot.

REQ: OOP “parent”

There was some discussion of extended OOP functionality this week. It seems there
a couple of interesting OOPisms that many end users are not aware of, and Alexander
Wirtz posted a short but "http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200101/msg02542.html">informative message
which describes two of the most common ones.

NEW: PHPLIB to be merged into PEAR

Sebastian Bergmann was approached by Kristian Kuhntopp and Ulf Wendel to
coordinate the effort to move PHPLIB to PEAR. This is great news, as it will
certainly help along the development of PEAR by supplying classes for
“Authorization, User and Permission Management, [...] abstraction of forms (with
Layout Management Engine) and a lot of other stuff (table proxies…)”.

NEW: EXTENSIONS file updated

The EXTENSIONS file in the source code has been updated to reflect the current
state of all PHP extensions. If you have authored one, you might want to check it
out to make sure your details are listed correctly. If you are an end user and are
interested in the “coming soon”/experimental extensions, this might be what you’re
after.

TLK: Advanced data types for PHP

PHP may soon support some extra data types, including hashes, linked lists and
trees. An extension is currently in the works to be used as a demonstration of the
“feel” of these new types. If it’s successful, it stands a good chance of being
re-written for inclusion in the core PHP types in a future version.

NEW: patch for BeOS

Stephen van Egmond has submitted a patch that enables PHP to compile under BeOS
r5.0.3 intel. It is available for "http://www.zend.com/lists/php-dev/200101/msg01988.html">testing
and may be included into the next revision of PHP, so it will work “out of the box”.