Ideas for Google Summer of Code Projects

Core PHP

• Unicode conversion of all internal functions for PHP 6

Quality Assurance

• Develop the gcov.php.net site (improve usability, send automatic e-mails to developers on new regression or memory leak, enable site to receive and display data from multiple sources,...). Some ideas/code: [1] [2] [3]

Pear

• PHP 4 to PHP 5 (and PHP 6?) conversion script
• Expand PEAR::MDB2_Schema to cover all aspects of schema evolution [1]
• New package to read, create or modify OpenDocument files
• Create a 5.1+ port of MDB2

Pecl

• Opcode optimizer for APC
• PHP Aspect rewrite
• Transaction Manager - Possible mentor Andi
• OCR Extension - Possible mentor Andi
• Script pre-processor - e.g. Support for C-like #define statements
• Named Pipe stream protocol transport
• SCTP stream protocol transport

Documentation / Livedocs

• New indexer for Livedocs
• Better docbook compatibility for livedocs

Other

• re2php - Add PHP Support to re2c
• ANTLR - Add PHP Code Generation Target to ANTLR 3