[Info-vax] Announcing PHP 5.3.10 for VMS

[Rich Jordan]

On Apr 6, 3:47 pm, Mark Berryman <m... at theberrymans.com> wrote:
> PHP 5.3.10 for Alpha or IA64 is now available in the usual place (http://www.theberrymans.com/php_kits/).  Beyond the updates to PHP
> itself, the following updates have been made to the VMS kit:
>
> Updated support libraries (OpenSSL, FreeTDS, libcurl, libpng, etc.).
>
> Added readline support.  However, some changes to readline were made:
> 1. There is a bug in the library as distributed where it would make a
> pass through the Termcap strings and replace them with the corresponding
> escape sequences.  Subsequent calls to find the correct escape sequence
> for a given Termcap string would then fail, causing most keys to not
> repaint the line/screen correctly.  Fixed this.
> 2. Change the EOF key from ^D to ^Z.
> 3. The Insert/Overstrike setting at startup is now based on your current
> terminal setting instead of always defaulting to insert.
> 4. Changed the following special key functions to closer match VMS:
>     ^A changed from beginning of line to insert/overstrike toggle
>     ^H changed from rubout to beginning of line
>     ^J changed from newline to delete word
>     ^R changed from reverse search to refresh line
>        meta-^R and meta-^S now do the reverse and forward search
>     all other keys retain their emacs function
>
> Added PostgreSQL support.  No, this is not a PostgreSQL server but PHP
> on VMS can now talk to a PostgreSQL server running on another system.
>
> Updated the OpenVMS extension to PHP by adding functions to set,
> retrieve, and delete DCL symbols as well as functions to set, retrieve,
> and delete logical names.  I've also added the necessary changes so that
> this extension returns all the info that the reflection extension is
> looking for.  Type 'php --re openvms' to see the output.  This command
> will show all of the available functions and their expected arguments.
> My thanks to Mark Daniel (he of WASD fame) for the DCL symbol code.
>
> As always, feedback on the port itself, or any of the changes made, is
> most welcome.
>
> Mark Berryman
>
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Thank you very much for all your effort!