[ciapug] PHP 6

[Tim Perdue]

David Champion wrote:
> Did y'all see the slashdot article today about PHP6?
> 
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/14/0455221
> 
> I'd heard most of this info before. Most of it sound great, but a lot of 
> apps will need some work under PHP6. At least with PHP5, these settings 
> (register_globals, magic_quotes...) were optional. In 6 they're not 
> supported.

For some reason, they are really trying to turn PHP into Java, instead 
of the amature/hack language that it started off as.

We've rewritten GForge entirely on php5, and I agree it's a helluva lot 
more elegant code in php5, but there's a big userbase of novices that 
need a friendly language to start off in. PHP may not be that anymore.

Tim