PHP 5.3

PHP 5.3 will support loading .htaccess style settings for cgi and fastcgi according to a presentation given at a php conference. This is pretty funny. About two and a half years ago I wrote a patch for the cgi and fastcgi api’s of php. I didn’t get feedback about the patch until someone at the #lighttpd irc channel pinged a php developer hanging around there. The feedback was: This doesn’t belong in PHP, discussion closed!

Because I needed the patch at that moment I converted it into an extension and htscanner was born. I used it for a test setup that never got into production because of other problems. I didn’t need the extension any more and someone else took it over from me and posted it at pecl. Pretty funny Zend included it now, probably some corporate client needed it and all objections disappeared.