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Bruce Morrison
Sunday 11 May 2008 4:08:18 pm
A good article on the changes slated for PHP6
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/?ca=dgr-lnxw01PHP-Future
cheersBruce
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Piotrek Karaś
Wednesday 14 May 2008 11:30:34 pm
Hi Bruce,
My question, following your earlier Vista-like questions, would be: what is eZ System's plan for Exponential in relation to PHP6? Will there be another port, or is any more challenging approach taken under consideration? This will be nice to know ;)
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Kristof Coomans
Thursday 15 May 2008 1:18:38 am
As you can read, the differences between PHP 5 and PHP 6 are language-wise far from as big as the one between PHP 4 and PHP 5.
At first sight, the only (necessary) changes for Exponential will be: - remove certain installation checks related to features that have been removed from PHP (safe mode, magic quotes, etc) - use the PHP 6 unicode features- replace usage of POSIX regex functions (ereg) with Perl Compatible regex functions (preg)
List of files in trunk (4.1.0alpha1) using ereg now:
./benchmarks/classes/ezbenchmarkrunner.php ./bin/php/ezconvertdbcharset.php ./kernel/classes/clusterfilehandlers/ezdbfilehandler.php ./kernel/classes/clusterfilehandlers/ezfsfilehandler.php ./kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/ezxmlinputtype.php ./kernel/classes/datatypes/ezxmltext/handlers/input/ezsimplifiedxmlinputparser.php ./kernel/classes/ezpackage.php ./kernel/classes/ezurlwildcard.php ./kernel/content/translations.php ./kernel/setup/steps/ezstep_registration.php ./lib/ezfile/classes/ezdir.php ./lib/ezlocale/classes/ezlocale.php ./lib/ezutils/classes/ezdebug.php ./lib/ezutils/classes/ezini.php ./lib/ezutils/classes/ezmail.php./lib/ezutils/classes/ezsys.php
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Thursday 15 May 2008 6:46:02 pm
<i>As you can read, the differences between PHP 5 and PHP 6 are language-wise far from as big as the one between PHP 4 and PHP 5.</i> The question remains - when will PHP4 code become problematic? Around PHP6, PHP7? ;)Hopefully, the components will be introduced soon enough.