[TYPO3-core] PHP requirement version for TYPO3 4.0

[Martin Kutschker]

Michael Scharkow <michael at underused.org> writes on 
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:41:50 +0100 (MET):

> Martin Kutschker wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hello? This patch is for those who use TYPO3 with Mysql without DBAL
> > who happen to be on a machine with Sybase setting.
> > 
> > It's a simple thing to change that (beside the short time problem
> > with the PHP version) does no harm.
> 
> I'd say every additional code that fixes stuff in some esoteric 
> circumstances does some harm to maintainability. That has, of course,
> nothing to do with this actual patch.


True. But in this case I always wondered why addslashes was used and not mysql_escape_string. This is for me, coming from the Mysql C-API, the most natural way.


> Just imagine how much code we could saved if e.g. gzip-encoding of 
> output worked predictably in PHP, so Kasper wouldn't have had to
> invent that again in TYPO3.


Ah, that's the reason? I always wondered what's wrong with mod_deflate.

Masi