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Adding new php syntax
March 5, 2009 · Posted in Patches
This is a quick patch I did to php's source code to implement some special syntax. Basically I wanted to be able to define an array like this:
$a=[ 1,2,3,4];
Get the patch here: New array syntax for php-5.2.6-5.2.9 (997 bytes)
To get this behavior download php's source code, extract it put my patch in the source directory and do this:
patch -p1 < new_array_zend_syntax.patch cd Zend ./buildconf ./configure make cd .. ./configure make
( This will only compile but not install - in case you want that just type make install at the end )
And here's a test script :
$a=[ 'key' => 'value',1,2,3]; print_r($a);
Save this script as test.php then run sapi/cli/php test.php
This was tested on php 5.2.6 and 5.2.9. I think this is probably useless for most people but it was fun to write so why not share it 
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