What version of PHP do you use?

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What version of PHP do you use?

PHP 5.3 or newer
14
78%
PHP 5.2 or older
4
22%
 
Total votes: 18

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Re: What version of PHP do you use?

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Jojo_44 wrote: To add one line in the sdk we need a voting ?
It's more complicated than that. I was thinking about whether we should use 5.3 for the SDK.
As big boo pointed out, it's mostly for the use of namespaces.
So a poll like this is more a survey than a vote: I want to see what version is mostly used by people.

In the end it's not just "one line". If we add namespaces to the SDK, it won't work at all on 5.2 installations so I want to make sure people use 5.3. :geek:

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Isn't it as simple as:
The developer says you need this version and the user upgrade then?
If the user does not upgrade, it's his fault and to the one of the developer. Just as simple as it is.

Btw. i find it really nice to ask the users ;)
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tcq wrote:Isn't it as simple as:
The developer says you need this version and the user upgrade then?
If the user does not upgrade, it's his fault and to the one of the developer. Just as simple as it is.

Btw. i find it really nice to ask the users ;)
In the end it is indeed NADEO that takes the decision, not a vote. But bare in mind that the SDK is entirely dedicated to the community, so my goal with with project is to make you happy :)

Whether it is for SDKs, or even for the game itself, we have a strong believe in user feedback at NADEO, that is why we ask the community for opinions etc. Sometimes we have to take decisions against what the community wants for various reasons (think about the FreeZone for example), but most of the time community feedback is valuable !
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Re: What version of PHP do you use?

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gouxim wrote:In the end it's not just "one line". If we add namespaces to the SDK, it won't work at all on 5.2 installations so I want to make sure people use 5.3. :geek:
I think everybody who wants namespaces can easily add at the top of the sdk file "namespace xyz", but ok, my view is mostly different from others ;) If you use multiple files for the sdk then I can understand the decision but for one file I think it´s not necessary.

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I do agree with Jojo.
And: there are a lot of website hosters who still stick to 5.2 (example: my webhost is going to change to PHP 5.3 end of this year).
This would mean I couldn't the SDK anymore on my webhost (till December or so)...
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TheM wrote:there are a lot of website hosters who still stick to 5.2.
That's the main issue, and it's too bad. PHP 5.4a1 just came out and some hosters are still running 5.2 :shock:
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gouxim wrote:
TheM wrote:there are a lot of website hosters who still stick to 5.2.
That's the main issue, and it's too bad. PHP 5.4a1 just came out and some hosters are still running 5.2 :shock:
They're either lazy or have a very good reason for doing so. I do recall PHP 5.3 having major security issues and some hosts refused to update. Lack of computability? Problems with legacy code?
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On my website: tmrankings.com i use PHP Version 5.2.17.

Alot of companies like webhosters only do this kind of 5.2.x version.

VPS, however let the user choose which version you might use.
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Re: What version of PHP do you use?

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gouxim wrote:
TheM wrote:there are a lot of website hosters who still stick to 5.2.
That's the main issue, and it's too bad. PHP 5.4a1 just came out and some hosters are still running 5.2 :shock:
Well, I work for a hoster, and we are currently running both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 on our shared hosting clusters (you have of course your own choice when using a VPS, dedicated or colocated server, you can even use PHP 4.x :mrgreen:). The problem is not the hoster IMO, but the customers. We also want to migrate all customers to PHP 5.3, but that's not possible. Too many scripts, sites are incompatible with that version, so that's why we are also still running PHP 5.2.
New customers will get PHP 5.3, and the current customers stay at PHP 5.2 (but migration to PHP 5.3 on request is of course possible).
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Re: What version of PHP do you use?

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mistertl wrote:The problem is not the hoster IMO, but the customers
Good point here. I think it's a bit of both: some hosters do take a long time to update their infrastructure to support 5.3 (which can be understandable in some way).

I think hosters and open source projects have a role in the migration to newer versions ; that is why we released ManiaLive as a 5.3 project, that is why ManiaLib2 is a 5.3 project ; I guess you see where I'm coming: the next release of the SDK will probably be 5.3 too !

Releasing the SDK as a single 5.2 file was kind of a bad idea; I thought that it was going to be simplier, and it was true at first ; but now we want to improve it, we want to use it in our projects, we want to use it in ManiaLive and in ManiaLib, etc. So it makes much more sense to adopt the same standards than our other open source projects.

Here are some points worth mentioning:
  • The 1.0 SDK which is 5.2 will obviously still work
  • If someone wants to update the 5.2 SDK when we release new features, I will be happy to commit the changes on the SVN and to make a new downloadable package
  • Migrating the code from the "old" to the "new" SDK will be very easy; I'll post a quick guide to do that, it'll just be a matter of renaming a couple of calls.
  • Once people use the 5.3 SDK, it will be very easy to use features from our other project ; for example ManiaLib as a cache feature that use MySQL as a cache backend ; people will be able to use that by simply including the ManiaLib namespace next to the TM WS SDK
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