By bloid
via santosj.name
Published: Jul 18 2007 / 09:37
Matt brings up some good points. What might be limiting PHP 5 adoption, could just be the lack of interest in developers. The reason or cause for this, in my opinion might be arrogance and also ignorance. Not to put off developers, because I'm damn sure Matt is a better developer than I am.
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Comments
cjcomm replied ago:
It's not arrogance to not upgrade to PHP5. We've attempted, but are having to wait a little longer when he have time to work out all the bugs. We have a number of sites to check over. Our main site would not be a problem so much, but some of others are problematic. The problem exists with the backward-incompatibility of PHP5.
nothingHappens replied ago:
I'm hearing a lot of that, but I find it really odd. I was of the impression that PHP5 still executes most PHP4-style code just fine -- the main exception being that the global domxml_* functions have been replaced by the (much better, IMHO) DOM extension -- and also that a lot of other global-namespace functions (of which people still complain that there are far too many) were moved off into optional extensions.
Several months ago I "ported" a large chunk of my company's existing PHP code to PHP5. The vast majority of the code stayed much the same, and even a lot of the XML handling code only needed functions renamed from underscored_style to CamelCaseStyle. Most of the time "porting" was actually spent improving the code in ways that were now possible with PHP5's new features.
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