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If you need PHP3 detection, DO NOT use version 1.5.0 or greater, but the latest release of 1.4 branch (1.4.3)

Version 0.7.x

• Initial PEAR public release: occured in March 2003, one month later after package proposal was launched under name PHP_Compatibility

• Added the ability to ignore files: in PHP_CompatInfo::parseFolder() and PHP_CompatInfo::parseArray()

• Added the ability to ignore folders: in PHP_CompatInfo::parseFolder()

• Added the ability to ignore functions: in all public methods.

Version 0.8.x

• Added a command line interface: with new class PHP_CompatInfo_CLI

• Added a clone function: to PHP_CompatInfo::parseFolder() named PHP_CompatInfo::parseDir(). parseFolder() became now an alias of parseDir().

• Added new option file_ext for parseArray: This option contains an array of file extensions to parse for PHP code. Default: php, php4, inc, phtml

• Fixed integration with PEAR_PackageFileManager: PackageFileManager::detectDependencies() implement call to PHP_CompatInfo and allow to detect easily minimum PHP version needed.

Version 1.0.x

• Improved PHP5 detection: one year after first PEAR public release, stable version 1.0.0 fixed some bugs and also allow PHP3 script/function detection.

Version 1.1.x

• Added support for reporting max PHP version: came with user request 6056

• Improved PECL detection: especially with SAPI extension.

Version 1.2.x

• Added new option ignore_constants: to PHP_CompatInfo::parseArray(), PHP_CompatInfo::parseDir(), PHP_CompatInfo::parseFolder(), PHP_CompatInfo::parseFile(), PHP_CompatInfo::parseString(),

• Load components list for a PHP version or subset: added new function PHP_CompatInfo::loadVersion() to API

Version 1.3.x

• Improved command line interface: output is limited to 80 columns for a better render. There is also now a windows launcher (named compatinfo.bat).

• package xml 1.0: was stopped to be generated on version 1.3.2 (september 2006)

Version 1.4.x

• Inactive leader: Davey Shafik, initial author of this package, became inactive, and I (Laurent Laville) follow his steps as new active package leader.

• PHP 4.3.0: is now required as a minimum to use both web and cli interfaces.

• License upgrade: from PHP 3.0 to PHP 3.01

• Improved PHP5 detection: with some bug fixes

Version 1.5.x

• Improved PHP5 detection: with new data source version.xml (revision 1.8) and funclist.txt (revision 1.39).

• Dropped support of PHP3 detection: due to content of new data source version.xml (1.8) and funclist.txt (1.39)

• Command line interface: under windows (pci.bat) and unix (pci.php) have now unified name. Idea came from PHP_CodeSniffer package that allow to fix lot of errors/warnings of coding standard.

  Debug output of CLI gave now origin of extension (from PECL or not) and minimum extension version (rather than PHP). See example docs/examples/checkExtensions.php

Version 1.6.x

• Improved PHP5 detection: with data source version.xml (revision 1.9) and funclist.txt (revision 1.39).

  More PHP constant are detected natively:

  • Some Core Predefined Constants ( PHP_EOL, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, PATH_SEPARATOR, E_STRICT )

  • Date Predefined Constants ( DATE_* )

  • CLI Specific Constants ( STD* )

  • File Upload Error Specific Constants ( UPLOAD_ERR_* )

• Command line interface: allow now to detect version of a simple string (code without using script tags <?php ... ?>. Uses new parameter -s or --string.

• Command line interface: allow now to print either an xml or text report (default). Uses new parameter -r or --report.

• loadVersion() may return both function or function+constant list.

• PHP method chaining is implemented on "Davey Shafik" request #13094.

Version 1.7.x

• Fix CLI output render to 80 columns, on main table :

  • 29 characters for File/Path column

  • 9 characters for Version column

  • 3 characters for C column (conditional code level)

  • 12 characters for Extensions column

  • 20 characters for Constants/Tokens column

• Fix CLI output render to 80 columns, on additionnal tables :

  • 25 characters for Option column

  • 51 characters for Value column

• Improved detection on conditionnal code: with new options : ignore_functions_match, ignore_extensions_match, ignore_constants_match.

  That allow to implement request 12857 : add the option to locally mask exceptions.

• Implement request 13138 : separate constants and tokens in results.

• Implement request 13147 : add filter file extension option on parsing directory (CLI)

• On CLI, the XML report generation is now xml compliant with a root tag (pci)

  Warning

  XML format is incompatible with version 1.6.x

• ability to know conditional code (such as function_exists) used by php scripts. A level (and details) of warning about conditional code found during parsing source code is available for all interface (including command line : with new column C)

• On CLI text report is customizable with new --output-level switch. Path/File+Version are always given on minimum report (0), until full details (max:15 - default).

• On CLI you may now summarize the result with new --summarize switch. Remove extra lines for all files when parsing a directory.

Version 1.8.x

• Show a progress bar when parsing directories from CLI

• Support of error_reporting constant E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR introduced with PHP 5.2.0