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124 mentions on Hacker News by 101 people: 28 stories, 96 comments · first 2009-07-24 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. I was thinking the same so I checked and they removed the duplication: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/3d9c02364db62a6d8e2794... They also fixed the whitespace handling that let something like "RandomHeader: hello host:8080"…
    comment by kichik · 2020-03-02 · in I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library
  2. …that they did not understand nor had a rationale for, so those behaviors were removed as well: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5201
    comment by glofish · 2020-03-01 · in I found and fixed a bug in PHP's standard library
  3. …C API. Check out [2] for a deeper understanding of how arrays are handled internally in PHP. [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.11/Zend/zend_typ... [2]: https://nikic.github.io/2014/12/22/PHPs-new-hashtable-implem...
    comment by capn_cabbage · 2019-11-10 · in Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8
  4. The commit that fixes it: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/ab061f95ca966731b1c84c...
    comment by orf · 2019-10-27 · in PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
  5. re2c is used by PHP: https://externals.io/message/102796 https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_languag...
    comment by openbasic · 2019-03-01 · in Re2c: A free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++
  6. …behaviours - PHP with its plugin architecture, and CGI where all web requests go through FPs : https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/main/fastcgi.c#L8... .
    comment by jcelerier · 2018-11-19 · in Bisected: The Unfortunate Reason Linux 4.20 Is Running Slower
  7. https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0alpha1/NEWS
    comment by kh3dr0n · 2018-06-08 · in PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 Released
  8. Check out https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0alpha1/NEWS
    comment by muglug · 2018-06-08 · in PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 Released
  9. …language with a decent YACC. There's already a yacc file for PHP's parser, part of the PHP runtime: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_languag...
    comment by johannes1234321 · 2018-03-02 · in Php-parser written in golang v0.3 is released
  10. PHP pcre is implemented in c https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/pcre/php_pcre...
    comment by barkingcat · 2017-02-08 · in Regex: badly needs fuzzing
  11. Well, I finally wrote a patch for that: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2160
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2016-10-13 · in Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (2001)
  12. Article: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0392/ PHP Source: https://github.com/php/php-src
    comment by PVS-Studio · 2016-04-28 · in PVS-Studio Team: Analysis of PHP7
  13. …up in development was this php7-fpm bug[1]. [0]: https://github.com/dshafik/php7-mysql-shim [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1720
    comment by Judson · 2016-03-14 · in How Badoo Saved $1M Switching to PHP7
  14. …CN=mail.cweiske.de for pear.php.net. I don't even know what to say.. Well, happy hacking! [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src [2]: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src [3]: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src/jobs/94372493
    comment by motiejus · 2015-12-02 · in PHP 7 Released
  15. …return null and you can't use it (which I'm okay with) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1045 With this, it will permit to have even better static analysis "a la" HHVM/hack (i.e detecting that you…
    comment by allan_s · 2015-12-02 · in PHP 7 Released
  16. …comment below. The arguments against Exceptions began in the comments on the relevant pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1397
    comment by sarciszewski · 2015-07-24 · in A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers
  17. For nullable types, there's a plan/rfc to have them too https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1045 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types not for 7.0 but hopefully for 7.1
    comment by allan_s · 2015-04-27 · in Comparing the PHP 7 and Hack Type Systems
  18. …for an opcode. [1] - http://www2.sys-con.com/itsg/virtualcd/dotnet/archives/0103/... [2] - https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/Zend/zend_vm_gen....
    comment by gopalv · 2015-02-28 · in Zend PHP JIT open sourced
  19. …takes years), there should be no development targeting version that was EOLed 4 years ago. [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.5/UPGRADING [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.6/UPGRADING
    comment by smsm42 · 2014-12-30 · in PHP Install Statistics
  20. …should use urandom. If no where else, when the program is first executed. And if you're on Windows: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/e6ea376a91514c59d21f4b53...
    comment by sarciszewski · 2014-12-09 · in Random in the wild
  21. …has committed multiple patches/improvements[1] to php-src as recent as PHP 5.6 Great explanation! https://github.com/php/php-src/commits?author=igorw
    comment by martin_ · 2014-09-23 · in PHP: why GOTO instead of recursion?
  22. …naming because the version file inside phpng says 5.7.0 - but that might just be a placeholder: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/phpng/main/php_version.h #define PHP_VERSION "5.7.0-dev"
    comment by ck2 · 2014-07-15 · in PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6
  23. …the space of URLs it can parse, but it's not difficult to cover all valid cases if you need to [2] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/36b88d77f2a9d0ac74692a...
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2014-06-22 · in In search of the perfect URL validation regex
  24. …your own litmus test. The PHPT runner that ships with PHP is actually thousands of lines long: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/7b7d2952a606fba6a5e21998... Keep in mind that PHPT files have to be parsed in userland. The runner has to…
    comment by cool_story_bro · 2014-03-19 · in PHPUnit 4.0 Released
  25. …tests in the original implementation [1][2]. I do not see anything on http://ph7.symisc.net/ . 1 - https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/tests 2 - https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/Zend/tests
    comment by kodablah · 2014-02-19 · in PH7 – An Embedded Implementation of PHP (C Library)
  26. There are people trying to take care of some of that already. https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/301 was at some point hoping to get into 5.6 but I don't know what happened to it since then.
    comment by nubs · 2014-02-17 · in List of possible changes, updates, additions for PHP 6
  27. …[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547 [2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62097 [3] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.3/Zend/zend_operat... [4] https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/5.4/Zend/zend_operators.... [5]…
    comment by DCoder · 2013-12-25 · in High Quality PHP
  28. …standard implementation. Compare https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-php/tree/ma... to https://github.com/php/php-src
    comment by kodablah · 2013-12-17 · in The future of PHP, at a distance
  29. …apply to C code. Also, php-src has had coding standards that really haven't changed for years: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/CODING_STANDARDS
    comment by lonnyk · 2013-06-20 · in PHP 5.5 released and other things PHP related
  30. Changelog here: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0/NEWS Highlights: * Opcode cache ( https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus ) * Generators and coroutines ( https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators ) * "finally" keyword * Constant…
    comment by iso8859-1 · 2013-06-20 · in PHP 5.5 released and other things PHP related
  31. Here's the news: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0/NEWS
    comment by dave1010uk · 2013-06-20
  32. …that use PHP, use the following: filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL); Regex from the source: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/filter/logica...
    comment by dutchbrit · 2013-05-24 · in Stop Validating Email Addresses With Your Complex Regex
  33. For others who were curious, I tracked down that PHP pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/132
    comment by yahelc · 2013-04-06 · in My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie
  34. Change log: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0beta1/NEWS
    comment by Jeremy1026 · 2013-03-22 · in PHP 5.5.0 beta1 Release
  35. Here's what's going on behind the scenes in PHP: https://gist.github.com/4372596 (Taken from https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.4.9/ext/standard/s... )
    comment by carbocation · 2012-12-25 · in Python alternatives for PHP functions
  36. …emails in PHP, use the following code: filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL); The actual beast: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/filter/logica...
    comment by dutchbrit · 2012-11-30 · in Valid Email Addresses
  37. …in PHP that validates emails. filter_var('foo@bar.com', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL); The actual beast: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/filter/logica...
    comment by dutchbrit · 2012-11-16 · in Regexp-based RFC822 email address validation
  38. This is the closest thing, I guess: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.5/UPGRADING
    comment by indeyets · 2012-11-16 · in PHP 5.5.0 Alpha1 Released
  39. …for this story. At any rate, here is a pull request for PHP which attempts to address the issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/221
    comment by zippie · 2012-10-25 · in The most dangerous code in the world
  40. My conclusion: count() is horribly slow. Always precalculate it, if possible. https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/standard/arra... In PHP they actually check the length of an array at every invocation of count(). As far as I can…
    comment by program · 2012-10-18 · in PHP Performance Benchmarks
  41. PHP is not on Github, the project on Github is simply a mirror. http://git.php.net/ https://github.com/php/php-src EDIT: They are receptive pull requests, though.
    comment by ihsw · 2012-07-27 · in How to add a new syntactic feature to PHP
  42. …from the modules "zend_module_entry" struct. Now if you look at, for example, the bz2 extension: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/bz2/bz2.c You see that NO_VERSION_YET (NULL) is set in the version field of the struct (line…
    comment by vstm · 2012-07-06 · in Not a bug: phpversion('extension_name') returns false
  43. …off switching or contributing to another language then they would be trying to re-invent PHP. [1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/graphs/code-frequency
    comment by birken · 2012-06-29 · in PHP Addiction
  44. Here is the fix that was applied: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/55869a95ab75c0eb99c572... If the first char in the query string is "-" and the query string also contains "=", it skips cmdline argument option parsing. Maybe it is…
    comment by 0x0 · 2012-05-03 · in New PHP Vulnerability:?-s may expose source code for mod_cgi
  45. There is already a github mirror: https://github.com/php/php-src
    comment by stoph · 2011-09-07 · in PHP will switch to git
  46. Well what project would he fork? The (apparently) official PHP mirror is way out of date: https://github.com/php/php-src
    comment by mattyb · 2011-06-10 · in PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards