PHP Appalachia mid day
September 29, 2006
I’m here at PHP Appalachia and have learned some interesting things.
SimpleXML has recently added some support for adding children and attribtues directly to a document. There may be little or no need to turn a document into a DOM object for many people’s purposes.
We talked a bit about RSS, and I brought up the awesome simplepie.org project (which I’ll talk a bit more about on my podcast later.
Chris today brought up the fact that ‘ereg’ functions will be removed from PHP6, forcing everyone to use preg_* functions. I’m definitely not a fan of that move, as it’ll cause even more upgrade problems. In some sense, because it’ll make previous code so non-compatible, it’ll force rewrites or wholesale changes to newer packages. At that point, like the change from VB to VB.NET, users/companies may instead opt for Ruby, Java, .NET or another platform entirely.
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