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.
