Comments on: What’s In Chris’ Brain – September 2009 Edition

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:19:47 +0000

Symfony 1.2 is also PHP 5.3 compatible.

By: Derek Jones

Derek Jones — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:39:54 +0000

I completely agree. It's dubious that any professional managed hosts with a responsible attitude towards their clients (and their own servers) will update anytime soon (particularly with 5.2.10 released near-simultaneously), so it's hung a few rungs below high priority.

However, it was a surprise to me (a pleasant one) that Apple included PHP 5.3 in Snow Leopard, and it's probably the main factor that will motivate me to make sure there's time for the release right away.
Many users do their development work on a local dev box, and a high percentage of both ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter users are on OS X. So it is of course our desire to cater to that audience.

By: chartjes

chartjes — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:25:33 +0000

Hi Derek, thanks for letting me know about Code Igniter's status with respect to 5.3. It's not that I *need* a version that is 5.3 compatible, it's just something that would be nice to have so I could keep my own dev environment at 5.3 instead of back in the 5.2 series.

If 1.7.2 works with 5.3, then I will update our project that uses it when it comes out.

By: chartjes

chartjes — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:23:35 +0000

Ah, but is it *production* ready?

By: Derek Jones

Derek Jones — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:20:06 +0000

My comment's in the HTML source, but I think my formatting is preventing it from displaying properly with intensedebate. Summary: The development version of CodeIgniter, the framework not named "out loud", has been compatible with PHP 5.3 since the end of July, and is quite stable. In fact, our intent was to push 1.7.2 a few weeks ago, but we've simply had an incredibly hectic schedule throughout August. Look for it soon, but if you need PHP 5.3 compatibility immediately, checkout the latest revision in the subversion repository

By: Travis Swicegood

Travis Swicegood — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:59:55 +0000

Ah hem… Argil runs in 5.3

By: aaa

aaa — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:01:53 +0000

http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/clearing-...

By: Derek Martin

Derek Martin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:48:43 +0000

Grab a copy of php|architect's book "Guide to PHP Design Patterns". It's a good short read on the topic, with examples in everybody's favourite lang.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:28:21 +0000

What's needed to make Cake 1.2 run on 5.3?

This patch:
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/6026

And also setting the default timezone in either php.ini (or other configuration) or in your bootstrap. That will suppress warnings whenever any date function is used.

That is what I did and my apps appear to run just fine so far.