Pierre (Entries tagged as htscanner)

Initial PHP4 support for htscanner

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:18:00 +0100

The first releases of the new 0.8.x have published earlier this week (0.8.1 is the latest). The main change is the full support of PHP4. I will support it as long as PHP.net maintains it. The ability to keep htscanner loaded while using PHP CLI is now possible without having to tweak the configuration (useful if you use a single php.ini for both cli and cgi).

I like to thank to widexs.nl, they make PHP4 support possible by sponsoring it.

Howto use a single php.ini for cli or cgi with htscanner, use 0.7.0 or later :)

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:46:00 +0100

Htscanner reports error during module or request init (returns FAILURE), these errors may be fatal and stop the current executions. This behavior is not desired if you use it in a shell ((if you have only one system php.ini for both cli and cgi or if htscanner is compiled statically). This release brings a new ini settings to solve this problem, stop_on_error.

When set to 1 htscanner returns a failure when an error occured internally (cache, doc_root missing, etc.). If it is et to 0 (the default) it will simply return SUCCESS and do nothing. It is useful if you have only one php.ini for cli and cgi or if you compiled it staticaly.

htscanner, new release, ISP needs?

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:59:00 +0100

The 0.6.3 releases have two important fixes:

Possible erroneous ini value length have been fixed
The fatal errors have in module and request initialization have been replaced by warnings

Thanks to Eugeny Zadevalov for the detailed reports. Eugeny sent patches to use htscanner in apache when mod_htaccess is active but without mod_php. You can find it in the README file in the release archive or CVS. We will try to keep this patch up to date.

He is working on making htscanner compatible with PHP4. I’m not a fan of supporting dead branches (I consider PHP4 as dead) but if enough users need a PHP4 version, I can push the patches upstream. In the worst case, I will add them in the release and Eugeny can maintain them. Let me know what you need!

During the season holidays, I got a couple of mails from hosting company using fastcgi and planning to use htscanner. Having system configuration automatically set by htscanner (open basedir per vhost for ex.) but not editable by the users can help to use fastcgi for shared hosts. Are you an ISP? or simply provide hosting services and plan to give htscanner support to your users? Let me know what you need.

Htscanner 0.6.2 has been released

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:51:00 +0100

Yet another PECL release, htscanner 0.6.2 is out. This release fixes a annoying but minor bug in the shutdown function. A new error message has been added when no translated path has been found.

I’m wondering if a function to manually clear the cache for a given document root (like you can clear the cache for your document root only) can be useful. Let me know if you need it, I can add it before I freeze this extension until the first stable release.

htscanner 0.6.1

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:08:00 +0100

0.6.1 has just been released. It is a bug fixes release only. One leak and some string optimizations. See the full changelong here.

cache added to htscanner

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:40:00 +0100

htscanner 0.6.0 has been released. It caches the ini settings instead of looking for htaccess files in the current directory and its parents. The performance impact is yet minimal.

A new ini setting defines the cache lifetime in seconds: htscanner.default_ttl, the default lifetime is 5mins.

Next step, bring this extension to a stable state before adding any new features.

htscanner homepage

htscanner, windows binaries available

nospam@example.com (Pierre) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:39:00 +0100

A quick note about the htscanner windows binaries, they are now available on pecl4win. I will also try to run more tests on windows, especiallly IIS + fcgi.