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Subject: Stop Breaking Our Apps For the Sake of OO
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

Hello!

While I welcome new developments in either procedural or OO interfaces 
in PHP I do not agree with breaking BC (between 5.1 and 5.2 in this 
case) just for the sake of OO purity. In this example there is the 
following class:

<?php
abstract class ezcDbHandler extends PDO
{
    public function __construct( $dbParams, $dsn )
    {
        $user          = null;
        $pass          = null;
        $driverOptions = null;
    }

    abstract static public function getName();

    static public function hasFeature( $feature )
    {
        return false;
    }
}
?>

which now with PHP 5.2 throws:

	derick@kossu:/home/httpd/ezcomponents/trunk$ php-5.2dev -l /tmp/foo42.php

	Fatal error: Static function ezcDbHandler::getName() cannot be abstract in /tmp/foo42.php on line 11
	Errors parsing /tmp/foo42.php

And it works fine in PHP 5.1. Now I know that abstract static might not 
make much sense OO wise, but it doesn't hurt a single bit to have it 
here. Breaking this just because it isn't OO enough is just bogus. So, 
when are we going to remove this check so that older apps work again?

regards,
Derick