[TYPO3-core] RFC #13258: Bugfix: TYPO3 4.2 should work on PHP 5.1 again

[Moreno Feltscher]

There's a little typo about the PHP version in the comment I guess.  
Shouldn't it be "[..] but is PHP 5.1 compatible"

Cheers
Moreno

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:51:42 -0800, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]  
<ernst at cron-it.de> wrote:

> This is an SVN patch request.
>
> Type: Bugfix
>
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=13258
>
> Branches: TYPO3_4-2
>
>
> Problem:
> TYPO3 v4.2 was developed with PHP 5.1 in mind, because some major
> commercial Linux distributions (RedHat, CentOS) which long time support
> still ship with it.
>
> With the minor release of 4.2.11 we broke that rule, by introducing a
> "filter_var()" function to fix a regression to a security fix (rev. 6408
> [1], RFC #12324 [2]).
>
> This broke several sites that tried to upgrade, which end up downgrading
> back to 4.2.10.
>
>
> Solution:
> The filter_var() function can be replaced by a simple "parse_url" and
> checking if the "scheme" is set. This is a valid replacement, because
> after all this is what PHP internally also does with filter_var (I just
> checked the PHP source-code, believe me).
>
> Attached patch does that.
>
> I also checked that change with our latests unit tests (in trunk), as
> this functionality is covered by unit tests, and all passed with  
> successed.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ernesto
>
> [1] http://forge.typo3.org/repositories/revision/typo3v4-core/6408
> [2] http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12324
>