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[Mitch Pirtle]

On 3/15/06, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it advantageous for me, as a web developer, to begin switching my
> projects over to PHP 5 and OOP even if the old way is working fine?
> I'm not seeing too many jobs that require 5 knowledge and I notice
> that a mass migration of hosting providers to PHP 5 has yet to happen.
>
> What does everyone think? Is learning and switching over to 5 now
> worthwhile or should I wait until it's been more fully adopted by the
> community?

We've agonized over the same decision for months. However, with an
application the size and complexity of Joomla, combined with the
active development and slow migration towards a more framework-like
model (as opposed to just a CMS), we all agreed that PHP5 and a more
OO-based approach was necessary.

The next major release of Joomla (2.0) will most definitely require
PHP5. There is just no way to get around it. There are too many things
that we want to take advantage of to stick with the 4.x environment.

Of course another interesting factoid is that a big chunk of the core
developers are also java guys, so we are left wanting even with 5.1
LOL

For me, the real question is - when folks do switch, are they going to
5.0 or jumping 5.0 and going straight to the more current 5.1?

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Mitch Pirtle
Joomla! Core Developer
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