There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix that works.

Author here, happy to answer any questions. I never imagined a polyfill for http_build_url would gain so much traction. After 12 years, deprecating it feels like the right move, especially given the new options from the community and PHP itself.

We used to work together at AOL. Glad to see you on here; I hope you're doing great!

• yard2010

  today at 7:01 AM

  Reading this threw me back to 2014 - how was working for AOL back then?

For a package with that kind of install base, is there a final release that prints the migration options in a deprecation notice? People will find it years from now through old Stack Overflow answers.

• TimWolla

  today at 7:29 AM

  The package is marked as abandoned on Packagist [1]

  > This package is abandoned and no longer maintained. No replacement package was suggested.

  Both adding it as a dependency using composer and installing it from a lockfile results in:

      $ composer require jakeasmith/http_build_url
      […]
      Package jakeasmith/http_build_url is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
      […]
      $ rm -r vendor/
      $ composer install
      […]
        - Installing jakeasmith/http_build_url (1.0.2): Extracting archive
      Package jakeasmith/http_build_url is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
      […]
  

  [1] https://packagist.org/packages/jakeasmith/http_build_url

Love you kept it alive this long

• hdjrudni

  today at 7:57 AM

  It hasn't been updated in 11 years. Not sure I'd call that "keeping it alive".

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