Re: CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken
Why not make -z an alias for -d zend_extension?
- Davey
> On Feb 15, 2025, at 15:23, Niels Dossche <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2/10/25 11:14 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 3:24 PM, Niels Dossche wrote:
>>> Hi internals
>>>
>>> We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740)
>>> that the -z command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work.
>>> This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line
>>> argument.
>>> However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP
>>> will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality
>>> it never loaded properly.
>>> I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a
>>> clean solution isn't straight-forward.
>>> Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least
>>> PHP 5.5, a long time.
>>> As passing -d zend_extension=foo on the command line is already a
>>> suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the -z option in PHP
>>> 8.5 instead of fixing it.
>>>
>>> Are there any objections against this? Please let us know.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Niels
>>
>> Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed?
>>
>> --Larry Garfield
>
> Hi
>
> Just to clarify: the -d option just sets an ini option.
> One idea could be to make -z print out a message telling the user to use "-d
> zend_extension=...". That would make the transition more "gradual".
> OTOH this didn't work for ages so nobody realistically relies on this option.
>
> Kind regards
> Niels
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