Comments on: GoPHP5.org http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/ Ken Rickard's notes about what he's doing Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Barren http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21750 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:59:14 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21750 Thanks a lot for clearing up the doubts. No, I am not a troll:( but read your article with much interest Thanks again. Thanks a lot for clearing up the doubts.
No, I am not a troll:( but read your article with much interest

Thanks again.

]]> by: Ken Rickard http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21710 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:22:01 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21710 You're beginning to sound like a comment troll, and you need to read up on the topic. PHP5 _allows_ OOP but does not _require_ it. The Drupal project does not use OOP and is compatible with both PHP4 and PHP5. See <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/file/oop.html" rel="nofollow">this explanation</a>. As for backwards compatibility, see <a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/faq.migration5.php" rel="nofollow">the PHP documentation</a>. You’re beginning to sound like a comment troll, and you need to read up on the topic.

PHP5 _allows_ OOP but does not _require_ it. The Drupal project does not use OOP and is compatible with both PHP4 and PHP5. See this explanation.

As for backwards compatibility, see the PHP documentation.

]]> by: Barren http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21699 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:54:03 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21699 Well ... Can you please tell me will the scripts working in php4 continue to work in php5 ... i.e. backward compatibility ? regarding "easy" ness one can surely do much more :) but thats confusing to the non-geek ones ... "oop" is not an easy concept like hello world which made millions embrace php so easily ... infact php was born as it was too complex to do things with perl .. Well …
Can you please tell me will the scripts working in php4 continue to work in php5 … i.e. backward compatibility ?

regarding “easy” ness one can surely do much more :) but thats confusing to the non-geek ones … “oop” is not an easy concept like hello world which made millions embrace php so easily … infact php was born as it was too complex to do things with perl ..

]]> by: Ken Rickard http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21665 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:15:24 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21665 I find that to be totally untrue, personally. I can do the same things in 5 that I could do in 4. Plus more. I find that to be totally untrue, personally.

I can do the same things in 5 that I could do in 4. Plus more.

]]> by: Barren http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21661 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:16:17 +0000 http://ken.therickards.com/2007/07/05/gophp5org/#comment-21661 php4 was hugely popular and what it is today JUST because it was simple - any one with knowledge of html could deal it. php5 is NOT that. All the geekary said and done, it is not that :( It is not just shared web hosts - but we as users could write or manipulate scripts, php5 is not that way exactly. Thus the danger is that people will either rely on solutions of monopolistic firms or something newer will just push away the complex php like the simple php did to perl ! php4 was hugely popular and what it is today JUST because it was simple - any one with knowledge of html could deal it. php5 is NOT that. All the geekary said and done, it is not that :(

It is not just shared web hosts - but we as users could write or manipulate scripts, php5 is not that way exactly. Thus the danger is that people will either rely on solutions of monopolistic firms or something newer will just push away the complex php like the simple php did to perl !

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