Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5
| From: | Jan Schneider | Date: | Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:47:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5 | ||
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Zitat von Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>:
> Hi guys,
>
> Now that we're at a very advanced stage and the code freeze is coming up,
> I
> think it'd be a good idea to start running some PHP 4 applications on PHP
> 5
> and see how easy things go. I'm sure we'll bump into some issues and many
> of them might be solvable (using the already existing compatibility mode
> for object cloning or by other means).
>
> If anyone here has time or has already tried running some popular PHP
> packages such as php-nuke, phpbb, phpmyadmin and so on, I'd love to hear
> about your experience and especially the problems.
Horde et al suffered from new reserved words, the known
return-non-variables-by-reference-problem, the changed array_merge()
behaviour/notification and not working on-the-fly-generation of stdClass
objects. It's not that much of a problem for us as we will release new
major versions near to the PHP 5 release, that will be tested with PHP
HEAD.
Jan.
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