Felix Arntz 10:23 am on October 15, 2018
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PHP Meeting Recap – October 8th

This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 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

  • We started discussing how themes should be approached in terms of the WSOD protection (see the Trac ticket / GitHub PR).
  • We noticed that, when the active theme is deleted, the frontend will simply show a blank screen, so there are no critical implications of what happens when no theme can be initialized. What needs to happen is therefore to just flag the theme as paused so that it isn’t loaded, with no further handling being necessary.
  • A Resume button for themes should be added to the Appearance adminadmin (and super admin) screen, similar like there is one for plugins, displayed to those that have the resume_theme capability, which should map to the existing switch_themes.
  • An observation was made along the lines that the default PHP error output also renders with the frontend message that something broke. While path disclosure is a problem, such messages should never display on production sites that are set up with something like the ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 ) directive. WordPress does not take care of setting this itself, which can be discussed in a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., but is not related to our WSOD protection efforts.

Next week’s meeting

  • Next meeting will take place on Monday, October 15th, 2018 at 15:00 UTC in #core-php.
  • Agenda: Discuss how the php-error.php template from the WSOD protection project and related efforts made in the PWA feature plugin can be implemented in a coherent way. @westonruter had highlighted that there were similarities, but also differences, and a common solution should be found.
  • 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.

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