Comments on: OSCMS: XML, Mashups and Drupal-as-Platform

by: Scott T.

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:19:15 +0000

Cool. I’m all for going to php5. I think this will be an easiy sell once Debian (the convervative distro) Etch goes stable w/ php5 included… At that point, there’s no real argument against supporting it in any hosted environment, IMO.

I’m mixed on whether contrib modules should really require php5 until core does … but I guess that’s up to the maintainers. :)

by: Ken Rickard

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:20:36 +0000

Scott-

I’m running PHP 5.1.6 on localhost, using the packages provided by Marc Linyage for OS X. Obviously, he included the json PECL library in his distro.

If this were a “real” release, we’d have two options:

1) Provide a PHP 4 / 5 parser for those without json support.

2) Follow Rasmus’ plea at OSCMS, and make PHP 5.2 required for use of the module.

by: Scott T.

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:59:13 +0000

Thanks for the slides. Unfortunately, I missed your presentation at OSCMS. I noticed a call to json_decode() which is in php >= 5.2 … do you include a JSON library in your code or are you just running php 5 or did you roll your own replacement?

by: Pat

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:48:24 +0000

Very much appreciated your presentation. Much food for thought.