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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:19:35 +0100
To: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Compatibility problems with PHP 5
From: messju@lammfellpuschen.de (messju mohr)

Hello,

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:32:29PM +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Now that we're at a very advanced stage and the code freeze is coming up, I 
> think it'd be a good idea to start running some PHP 4 applications on PHP 5 
> and see how easy things go. I'm sure we'll bump into some issues and many 
> of them might be solvable (using the already existing compatibility mode 
> for object cloning or by other means).
> 
> If anyone here has time or has already tried running some popular PHP 
> packages such as php-nuke, phpbb, phpmyadmin and so on, I'd love to hear 
> about your experience and especially the problems.

Version 2.6.0 (the latest) of the Smarty template engine seems to go
fine with php5. There is one new and rarely used feature in this
version that relies on passing a function-parameter that has to be
named "$this". But I'm sure this will be fixed in the near future.

Older versions of Smarty create code that calls functions dynamically
"$this->_plugins['function']['foo'][0](array(), $this)". This seems to
break in php-5.

greetings
messju

> Thanks,
> Andi