[uf-discuss] Re: Parsing XFN in PHP

[gareth rushgrove]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> Michael MD wrote:
>
>  > There are still lots of people stuck with php4 on shared servers ...
>
>  I suspect that won't be the case much longer after security updates for
>  PHP4 are discontinued in August.
>
>
>  > What did they expect? ... changing a language in ways that breaks
>  > existing code is hardly the way to encourage people to upgrade to a new
>  > version!
>
>  There are virtually no changes in PHP5 that break existing PHP4 code.
>

But their are new parts in PHP5 that if you use will render your code
incompatible with PHP4 - in hKits case the use of SimpleXML. Although
I agree PHP4 support wouldn't interest me.

Drew releases hKit under an open source licence. I'd recommend joining
the mailing list and checking out the source if you fancy.

http://groups.google.com/group/hkit-discuss
http://code.google.com/p/hkit/

With regards microformat support, their are actually a few profiles
floating around for hKit as well as hcard, although they are scattered
around the web. If I get a chance I'll see if I can get a list
together somewhere - although Drew may already have one.

G

>  Some things like register_globals and auto-escaping of incoming variables
>  are turned off by default in PHP5 (they were on by default in PHP 4.0
>  IIRC) but can be switched on in php.ini or a .htaccess file in a matter of
>  seconds.
>
>  PHP6 will be a more painful switch for those with legacy code. (But still
>  fairly painless for those updating from PHP5-style code.)
>
>
>  --
>  Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
>  [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
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>
>
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