Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PHP3 support

[Tony (Angles) Puglisi]

As for email, I *almost* always check PHP docs to see if something existed in 
php3,
and, if not, I'll make a php3 version of what I need.

However, when it comes to typecasting, I got clueless. This is extremely 
fixable.

Also, I did not realize that in php3 this was _very_ bad:

function offTheHook ($arg_array = array())

apparently, putting something = array in a function arg like that is not php3 
good.
Again, this is not a big deal.

Anything else I missed, let me know. I recently made a replacement for
array_search, I guess I should put that in the php3 compat functions file. Note
that the real array_search is only in php >= 4.0.6 though!

Leonardo Gomes Figueira (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>Hi,
>
>
> > Bummer. We are trying to get more developers to test in PHP3, but dont
> > always have time.
>
>And i think it will get more and more difficult to get people running in
>PHP3...
>
>
>> I must have left that parse error in there when I was adding in some new
>> functions last weekend. Its a simple thing to fix, and not something to
>> freak out about. If you use code thats in development right from CVS
>> then you better be ready to handle problems.
>
>
>Ok, I didn't freak out (maybe a little hehehe). Sorry.. :)
>
>> If you want to upgrade, then thats fine. But we are going to continue to
>> support PHP3 and no warning is nessesary, we just need to fix a few
>> bugs. Again, if you want to use cvs dev code and you expect to pull from
>> cvs any time and expect it to work, you are being foolish.
>
>
>I know dev code can stop working anytime, but it hapens much more if you
>are using PHP3, that's one of the ideas i wanted to say in that message.
>
>> Next time kindly let us know you found a bug and we will fix it, dont
>> rant about development code being instable because it only makes you
>> look rude and foolish.
>
>
>Sorry. I didn't want to look like this.
>
>What i wanted to say is that there is a gap between support for PHP3 and
>PHP4 and i believe this hapens because the developers don't test their
>code in 3 (and you confirmed this in the begining of this message). I'm
>not a PHP developer but i devel in other plataforms and i know what a
>pain is to maintain backward compatibility...
>
>Like i said i've been using phpGW in PHP3 and i help with bug hunting
>but it got so difficult to keep up that i think is best for us (the
>company that i work for) to upgrade to PHP4 and help finding bugs there
>(and when phpGW becomes stable it will run in PHP4 anyway in our
>production servers so it would hapens sooner or later).
>
>Don't get me wrong, i want to help, maybe i got too excited in my
>message but i never wanted to ofend anyone. I think you all developers
>are making an excelent job and i hope we'll have a stable product in .14
>and i will do my best to help in this job.
>
>Bye,
>
>    Leo
>
>
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