[TYPO3-core] RFC #10759: RemoveXSS is incompatible with PHP 5.2.9 in TYPO3 4.2

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Xavier Perseguers schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>>>> Here's a fix for its use in t3lib_div.
>>>
>>> +1 on reading.
>>>
>>> Olly, about your note in http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9945 : 
>>> what do you mean with "integrate the __constructor() hack"? I don't 
>>> see the need for a construct() method at all since it is meant to be 
>>> used statically anyway.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
>> i think following:
>> in php4 the pseudo constructor was function with same name as class, 
>> so if you instance it, it will call the function as well.
>> This can be prevented by defining an empty __constructor() in this class.
> 
> Perhaps but this patch is for 4.2 and 4.2 needs PHP5.2. Why would we 
> have to care of PHP4?
> 

do you know that even php has the compatibility cow? :-)

This simply means, instancing the class will use the function as 
constructor, even in php5.

If you insert this line
function __construct() {}

it doesn't anymore, even with the same name of function, then also no 
wrapper is needed.

vg Steffen