Changelog

The following changes have been made to classes/functions/methods of this extension.

VersionFunctionDescription
7.4.0str_getcsvThe escape parameter now interprets an empty string as signal to disable the proprietary escape mechanism. Formerly, an empty string was treated like the default parameter value.
7.2.18, 7.3.5substr_compareoffset may now be equal to the length of main_str.
7.2.0number_formatnumber_format was changed to not being able to return -0, previously -0 could be returned for cases like where number would be -0.01.
 parse_strUsage of parse_str without a second parameter now emits an E_DEPRECATED notice.
7.1.0str_shuffleThe internal randomization algorithm has been changed to use the Mersenne Twister Random Number Generator instead of the libc rand function.
 striposSupport for negative offsets has been added.
 strposSupport for negative offsets has been added.
 substr_countSupport for negative offsets and lengths has been added. length may also be 0 now.
7.0.0setlocaleSupport for the category parameter passed as a string has been removed. Only LC_* constants can be used as of this version.
 substrIf string is equal to start characters long, an empty string will be returned. Prior to this version, FALSE was returned in this case.
5.6.5cryptWhen the failure string "*0" is given as the salt, "*1" will now be returned for consistency with other crypt implementations. Prior to this version, PHP 5.6 would incorrectly return a DES hash.
5.6.0cryptRaise E_NOTICE security warning if salt is omitted.
 html_entity_decodeThe default value for the encoding parameter was changed to be the value of the default_charset configuration option.
 htmlentitiesThe default value for the encoding parameter was changed to be the value of the default_charset configuration option.
 htmlspecialcharsThe default value for the encoding parameter was changed to be the value of the default_charset configuration option.
5.5.21cryptWhen the failure string "*0" is given as the salt, "*1" will now be returned for consistency with other crypt implementations. Prior to this version, PHP 5.5 (and earlier branches) would incorrectly return a DES hash.
5.5.11substr_comparelength may now be 0.
5.5.1hex2binA warning is thrown if the input string is invalid hexadecimal string.
5.4.32, 5.5.16ucwordsAdded the delimiters parameter.
5.4.4hex2binA warning is thrown if the input string is of odd length. In PHP 5.4.0 the string was silently accepted, but the last byte was truncated.
5.4.0get_html_translation_tableThe default value for the encoding parameter was changed to UTF-8.
 get_html_translation_tableThe constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML and ENT_HTML5 were added.
 html_entity_decodeDefault encoding changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
 html_entity_decodeThe constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML and ENT_HTML5 were added.
 htmlentitiesThe default value for the encoding parameter was changed to UTF-8.
 htmlentitiesThe constants ENT_SUBSTITUTE, ENT_DISALLOWED, ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML and ENT_HTML5 were added.
 htmlspecialcharsThe constants ENT_SUBSTITUTE, ENT_DISALLOWED, ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML and ENT_HTML5 were added.
 htmlspecialcharsThe default value for the encoding parameter was changed to UTF-8.
 htmlspecialchars_decodeThe constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML and ENT_HTML5 were added.
 number_formatThis function now supports multiple bytes in dec_point and thousands_sep. Only the first byte of each separator was used in older versions.
5.3.7cryptAdded $2x$ and $2y$ Blowfish modes to deal with potential high-bit attacks.
5.3.4get_html_translation_tableThe encoding parameter was added.
 strip_tagsstrip_tags ignores self-closing XHTML tags in allowable_tags.
5.3.2cryptAdded SHA-256 and SHA-512 crypt based on Ulrich Drepper's implementation.
 cryptFixed Blowfish behaviour on invalid rounds to return "failure" string ("*0" or "*1"), instead of falling back to DES.
5.3.0cryptPHP now contains its own implementation for the MD5 crypt, Standard DES, Extended DES and the Blowfish algorithms and will use that if the system lacks of support for one or more of the algorithms.
 htmlentitiesThe constant ENT_IGNORE was added.
 htmlspecialcharsThe constant ENT_IGNORE was added.
 nl2brAdded the optional is_xhtml parameter. Before this version '<br />' was always inserted.
 setlocaleThis function now throws an E_DEPRECATED notice if a string is passed to the category parameter instead of one of the LC_* constants.
 stristrAdded the optional parameter before_needle.
 strlenPrior versions treated arrays as the string Array, thus returning a string length of 5 and emitting an E_NOTICE level error.
 strstrAdded the optional parameter before_needle.
5.2.5addcslashesThe escape sequences \v and \f were added.
5.2.3htmlentitiesThe double_encode parameter was added.
 htmlspecialcharsThe double_encode parameter was added.
5.2.2 - 5.2.6substrIf the start parameter indicates the position of a negative truncation or beyond, false is returned. Other versions get the string from start.
5.1.0explodeSupport for negative limits was added
 md5_fileChanged the function to use the streams API. It means that you can use it with wrappers, like md5_file('http://example.com/..')
 sha1_fileChanged the function to use the streams API. It means that you can use it with wrappers, like sha1_file('http://example.com/..')
 str_word_countAdded the charlist parameter
 substr_compareAdded the possibility to use a negative offset.
 substr_countAdded the offset and the length parameters