php-posix

PHP - What are the best/popular libraries for developing CLI apps/scripts?

Many of the component libraries and toolkits I'm familiar with lack CLI-specific libraries (zend, kohana, etc..). Are there any libraries/tools that are designed specifically for developing CLI application (such as an abstraction of php's multi-threading library, pcntl/posix)? ...

The point of PHP's recent dropping of [[:POSIX:]] regular expression flavor

Dropping of the ereg-functions and their POSIX-regular expression flavor in later PHP versions? After reading an older posting concerned of this - and reading the official PHP statement I'm inclined to ask what this is about. Following the development of PHP over the years (and doing much development in Perl and PHP) I'm really unsure i...