Of PHP References and Compatibility

October 20th, 2005

Following up on the Backward compatibilty and web host adoption of PHP 5 post from two weeks ago, I got a pretty good education about the problem with taking a reference of $this. The best summary is in this bug report.
It comes down to the fact that allowing references to be taken of $this [...]

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Zend PHP Framework not a rumor

October 18th, 2005

There is a sparse FAQ up at zend for PHP Collaboration Project. Looks like there is definitely a framework involved. (The eclipse stuff is nice, too, but my interest is in frameworks.)

Q: Describe the Zend PHP Framework. What is it and why is it needed?
A: Anyone building industrial-grade PHP applications knows there’s [...]

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Crazy Zend PHP Framework Rumors

October 17th, 2005

Computerworld has more information on Zend PHP Framework:

“PHP as a language isn’t isolated and people are going to be building SOA types of applications using XML and SOAP,” said Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technology at IBM.
“So the idea is to have an Eclipse plug-in here to leverage content [and] leverage the assets that [...]

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Zend PHP Framework

October 17th, 2005

The Utah PHP user’s group may have let the cat out of the bag a day early for an announcement at tomorrow’s Zend / PHP Conference:

Zend Technologies this week will announce Zend PHP Framework, a development environment for PHP applications. … Due later this year, Zend PHP Framework is intended to standardize the way [...]

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Code Coverage, Feedback and Open Source

October 4th, 2005

I’ve long wondered about the quality and extent of the PHP test suite. During my posting hiatus, John Coggeshall addressed my question by posting a coverage report generated by running the test suite. Unless I am mistaken, he also implies that the report will at some point become automated and available at http://cov.php.net/. [...]

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Backward compatibilty and web host adoption of PHP 5

October 2nd, 2005

I blogged about PHP 5 adoption in january when a survey put the adoption rate at 1.5%. I ran across a thread at web hosting talk, which asks Php5 rare, why? Bugs, backward compatibility problems, and the difficulty of running two versions at once come up as issues.
But I want to focus on [...]

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