Hi Brian, Yes, php 4.3 is the minimum supported version. Make all your decision on this criterion.
Please, tell us when there is something available for testing with php 5. Yesterday, I give it a try with php 5, but the installer fails with some session error. > Please forgive me if I seem to over-post what I am doing. :-) It's excellent. Keep it the same way. It's a good experience for all of us. Greetings Kaloyan On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:48 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > For now, let's not even worry about php6. Basically, most of the things > that are deprecated in php5 become illegal in php6 (sort of), but in most > cases it can be worked around in the php config. If you want to learn more > about what is changing between php5 and php6, take a look at > http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html (but don't feel obligated, as > it is a non-issue at this time). > > I believe that PHP 4.3 is sufficient for a minimum version. What I am going > to do is add comments where I believe the functionality would need attention > should php6 support become desirable. For my part, versions I am targeting > are of course 4.3 and 5.1.2, two fairly popular releases. > > > There are automatic variables in php that hold useful information. For > example, $_COOKIE is an array of the cookies sent by the browser, and $_POST > is an array of post data passed when a user submits a form. Earlier > versions of php used an alternate naming scheme for these magic variables. > $HTTP_POST_VARS and $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS are examples (there are five main > ones). These "long arrays" were deprecated in favor of the shorter ones > starting with $_ as of php4.1. By registering the long arrays, you ask php > to create these deprecated variables for you in the global scope, thereby > slowing down the application. Now that I know the minimal version will be > php 4.3, I feel confident in working to disable this functionality. > > One of the reasons php5 may not work well with this application is the > default setting of register_long_arrays in php.ini, but it would be only a > small part of the picture if at all. > > > Please forgive me if I seem to over-post what I am doing. :-) > --Brian Zab > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:51:35 +0300 > > From: Kaloyan Raev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The installer is my work. Actually, part of it is my work. I took the > > installer from another project - MirrorMed (mirrormed.org) and made > > modification to use it with Care2x. So, the code of the installer is > > independent from the runtime code of Care2x. > > > > As for your comment about register_long_arrays, honestly I don't > > understand it. The framework of the installer is developed by the > > developers of MirrorMed. I didn't spend enough time to study all its > > aspects - just enough to adapt it to care2x. Feel free to make the > > changes you think are appropriate. > > > > PHP 6 is nice to have, but not a must. The focus now is PHP 5. PHP 4.x > > compatibility is a must. However, PHP 6 frightens PHP 4.3 compatibility. > > What about PHP 4.4? If PHP 6 and PHP 4.4 compatibilities can live > > together then in future version we can enforce using PHP 4.4 as lowest > > version number. > > > > Greetings > > Kaloyan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Care2002-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
