[PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE

Hi internals,

I’d like to start the discussion for a new RFC about adding a FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE flag to the filter extension.

–Daniel

On Sat, 5 Jul 2025, Daniel Scherzer wrote:

Hi internals,

I'd like to start the discussion for a new RFC about adding
a FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE flag to the filter extension.

* RFC: PHP: rfc:filter_throw_on_failure
* Implementation: [RFC] FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE by DanielEScherzer · Pull Request #18896 · php/php-src · GitHub

I think this is an excellent idea.

I left a review on the PR, with a suggestion to improve the exception
message (slightly):

cheers,
Derick

On Sat, Jul 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM Daniel Scherzer <daniel.e.scherzer@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi internals,

I’d like to start the discussion for a new RFC about adding a FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE flag to the filter extension.

–Daniel

Given the lack of further feedback outside of discussing the exception message, either here or on GitHub, I plan to open the vote in the next few days.

-Daniel