[pmwiki-users] Recipes you use/need to be updated for PHP 5.5

Petko Yotov 5ko at 5ko.fr
Tue Jan 7 17:31:30 CST 2014


Or, you can write in your recipe page your requirement that it depends on  
php 5.3 or above.

Currently the PmWiki core does not restrict you at all to use closures in  
your recipes. You can have them, they will only work on PHP 5.3+ sites.

Petko

John Rankin writes:
>> Classes and callbacks have changes in different PHP versions so it may be  
>> tricky to write one that is compatible with PHP 4.2 to 5.5. But not  
>> impossible.
> I'd like to ask a follow-up about using preg_replace_callback with the  
> anonymous functions capability (closures) provided from php 5.3 onwards; for  
> example:
>
> function ($match) use ($pagename) { ... }
>
> While I understand the rationale for supporting older versions of php, is  
> this necessarily the best strategy?
>
> Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) on my PowerPC mac runs php 5.2. Snow Leopard (10.6)  
> runs php 5.3. Presumably Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks run later php  
> versions. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS runs php 5.3 and I think 14.04 LTS will ship with  
> php 5.5.
>
> I wonder whether consideration should be given to renaming pmwiki 2.2.56 as  
> pmwiki 2.5.1, with a requirement that it depends on php 5.3 or above. Those  
> running an older version of php would need to run 2.2.55 or below.
>
> Similarly, existing cookbook recipes would continue to work with php 5.4 or  
> below, but new versions which are compatible with php 5.5 and above could be  
> progressively added.
>
> I can see arguments for and against this approach, but in my case access to  
> the 'use' keyword to pass parameters is very attractive. Php 5.2 has not  
> been officially supported since 2011-01-06 and php 5.3 was released in  
> 2009-06-30 with support until 2014-07.
>
> Thoughts? Any idea what proportion of installations are running pmwiki on  
> php 5.2 or below? Any idea how many of these are planning to upgrade to  
> pmwiki 2.2.56 or above?




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