how i`m gonna “promote” php 5.

Hey,

some of you might know that i`m verry PRO php 5.2.x and that i hate it that alot of hosts still only offer php 4..

And to encourage you people to make the move to php to be able to use this script i willhave all the PHP 5 stuff in magedb by default and you will need to download special .php files to get MageDB running in php 4.

Lets just tell you some of the new things that i`m gonna use in php 5.

- Image Magick

- XMLReader

- XMLWriter

- APC (Alternative PHP Cache)

- Fileinfo

the above modules/extensions will be used in magedb. and the first 4 will be used ALOT (Fileinfo perhaps a little.. depends on where i could use it). and when you have php 5 you will have some nice speed improvements aswell because i don`t need to write entire classes to do something (for example the xml reading and writing) the unlucky php 4 fellows won`t have a hard time making the script working on php 4.. they probably will have that option during the installation, than the installer will download the patched files.

as of this moment i haven`t done much in magedb besides testing alot of different stuff so i`m afraid the release isn`t sooner than expected.. although the permissions system is getting somewhere.. (in sql code.. no php yet)

that`s it for now

till next blog.