Re: [SMARTY-DEV] php5 timeline, if any

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:50:08PM -0700, alex black wrote: > Hi all, > > We (er, the binarycloud developers) are in the process of doing a > reorganization of all the code in bc in preparation of a release. We're > going to release for PHP5. > > Given our reliance on smarty (and soon, extremely tight integration) - we > wanted to have an idea (if one exists here) on plans for a PHP5 compatible > version of smarty. > > I had a look at a big php5-mushroom-cloud thread :) - and it seems to be > "when the beta is stabilized we'll work out issues, but not time wasted > until then?" the beta looks quite stable: it didn't change till june :) honestly: Smarty's cvs-HEAD should go fine with php5. i cannot recommend 2.6.0-RC1, it has some serious bugs that are fixed in cvs but there was no time for another RC-release yet, so i say cvs-HEAD. there is only one feature that doesn't work with php5/ze2: registering plugins being cacheable=false. this is quite new and rarely used, yet. it relies on a function-parameter passed with the name $this. there is no public php5-compatible solution for that right now but i wouldn't be too concerned with that incompatibility. everything that worked with 2.5.0 should work with cvs-HEAD and php5. i only tested smarty with php5 very superficially so feel free to report any incompatibilities you encounter here. i wouldn't tag them as "urgent bugs" but if smarty's behaviour against php4 doesn't suffer i'm happy to fix 'em. greetings messju > ? > > :) > > _alex > > project leader, binarycloud > http://www.binarycloud.com > > -- > Smarty Development Mailing List (http://smarty.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php