Felix Arntz 12:33 pm on October 8, 2018
Tags: , ,   

PHP Meeting Recap – October 1st

This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable to attend.

You can find this meeting’s chat log here.

Chat Summary

  • After last week’s meeting, we briefly continued discussing whether we should move forward with a hardcoded approach for the Update PHP page. While it is currently a regular WordPress page, we confirmed that decision, with the most important reason being its better trackability for string changes, and thus better handling for translators. In addition, the hardcoded approach should be quicker to develop because it does not involve dynamic content such as Gutenberg blocks.
  • It was decided that #3789 should be repurposed for that. @flixos90 said he would be up for it and will work on a first meta patch soon.
  • We then discussed the WSOD protection, particularly recent comments made on its ticket #44458.
    • We decided that the is_protected_endpoint() result should be filterable, however only for adding further endpoints. It should not be possible to alter the protected core endpoints.
    • The php-error.php drop-in should be responsible for outputting the HTTP status header and rendering HTML markup to the page. With this functionality being limited to a template, it is in line with the existing db-error.php. More importantly, with this approach sites that use the drop-in will still get the benefits of detecting multiple errors in one go by using redirects.
    • The function is_ssl() is always loaded when it would be needed by the new code (since it is part of wp-includes/load.php), so there is no need to think about what to do when it is not available.
  • @flixos90 confirmed that the multisite team would review the existing code the same week. This feedback has since been posted on the ticket. As of now, most of this feedback is already implemented on the latest patch. Please see the ticket for an explanation of the changes including screenshots, and the underlying GitHub pull-request for a better overview of the code.
Network Admin UI for the (manually) broken "Hello Dolly" plugin
Network Admin UI for the (manually) broken “Hello Dolly” plugin. Network administrators see information about the sites affected and can resume execution for the entire network, essentially force-resuming the plugin for every site.

Next week’s meeting

  • Next meeting will take place on Monday, October 8th, 2018 at 15:00 UTC in #core-php.
  • Agenda: Review the latest patch, gather feedback and ideas, particularly in regards to multisite support and theme support, the latter of which is yet to be added.
  • If you have suggestions about this but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#core-php, #php, #servehappy