Silence

It's been more than 3 months that I brought back to mind, what was happening in my PHP/HTTP/CURL world, so here we go.

February:

pecl/http with support for persistent handles has been released.

A proposal of mine at internals to change the behaviour of read_property/write_property and get_property_ptr_ptr object handlers has successfully been ignored.

The idea was the following:

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Wouldn't it be reasonable for the engine to use get_property_ptr_ptr() whenever it wants to modify a property and get rid of using read_property() for write access?

That would make rather simple ops like concatenation, in-/decrementation etc work again with overloaded internal classes. Just make the engine use read_property() followed by a write_property() when there's no get_property_ptr_ptr().

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Nobody was interested.

March:

I added a comparison object handler to the DateTime class, which means that comparisons of DateTime objects should work in recent PHP5 versions.

I started development of pecl/libetpan, but dropped it again because of pretty huge differences between how the library works and how PHP is supposed to work. What a pity.

A less fine guy, some Omid, wanted me to write a PHP extension which calculates the strength of "poker hands", but he jumped off when I had done the algos.

April:

A fine guy, pretending his name was Andreas Weber, noticed that pecl/http's request method implementation was completely b0rked. Thanks to his report it was fixed in 1.5.3.

All fame Lukas Smith, queried me about what might have changed with my new output layer implementation for PHP6, but I noticed too late that it's been for a conference talk he was preparing, so I feel like I didn't spend enough attention to his questions. Sorry Lukas.

I started to implement libcurl's new multi_socket AKA hiper API in conjunction with libevent, but stumbled across a few problems.

May:

My journey with libcurl's multi_socket API continues, which eventually causes the delay of a first pecl/http 1.6 release candidate.

I tried Drupal for the first time.

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Well, that'd be it. If it reads like an extrusion of junk, it probably was. ;)