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gophp5.org

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:50 pm
by hawleyjr
I ran across this on digg today...Pretty cool.

http://gophp5.org
PHP 4 has served the web developer community for seven years now, and served it well. However, it also shows its age. Most of PHP 4's shortcomings have been addressed by PHP 5, released three years ago, but the transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5 has been slow for a number of reasons.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:02 pm
by The Phoenix
I highly support this initiative. I'm polling all the projects I work with to see if they will take the pledge as well.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:30 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Saw the announcement on the PEAR mailing list. Hopefully it keeps up the awareness that PHP4's days are numbered. Imagine the confusion that could ensue if folk leave migration to the last minute :(.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:16 am
by superdezign
PHP 5 is pretty much completely backwards compatible. PHP.net gives simple upgrade instructions. But still... PHP 4 lives on.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:49 am
by volka
Time to emphasize the advantages of php 5 and to endorse the project.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:56 am
by MrPotatoes
i'm just happy that we are moving our project to PHP5. i'm the lead guy in converting 90K lines of PHP4 code to PHP5 with OOP Practices. i'm happy that i have a guy that knows what he's talking about (project manager). he's great with databases and i'm killer with code.

i'm going to make sure to send this all over to people that don't know yet. it is definatly about time that people completely make the switch. i find it sincerly stupid to stay with PHP4 and all it's shortcomings. besides, (good) classes kickass.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:05 am
by RobertGonzalez
That is outstanding. I'm in.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:04 pm
by superdezign

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:17 pm
by hawleyjr
We are now linked in their discussion area:

http://www.gophp5.org/discussion

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:58 pm
by superdezign
:? Don't see it.

We need to like.. Make some comparison lists or something of what PHP 5 can do that PHP 4 can't.

We've got *actual* OOP.
That nifty little file_get_contents() that avoids needing cURL.
One of the DOM classes (forgot which, but I know PHP 4 has the one people alway get confused on).
Apparently, they optimized the language with Zend 2, but I'm not sure exactly where...

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:19 pm
by Ambush Commander
I'm fully in favor of this shift, but I am skeptical of its efficacy.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:32 pm
by superdezign
Well, they've given themselves more than half of a year to do it.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:28 pm
by Luke
Finally got a chance to write about it... and what an appropriate day! :)

http://www.mc2design.com/blog/go-php5

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:57 am
by The Phoenix
Today, Blacknova Traders joined the GoPHP5 movement.

Took a while, but its finally official!