XOOPS: XOOPS goes PHP5
Posted by: phpppOn 2008/3/29 12:00:00 29273 readsXOOPS 3.0 to support exclusively PHP5+ This is to announce that starting with Version 3.0, we'll be supporting exclusively PHP 5.2 and up. The XOOPS 2.3 (check out the Alpha 2 Release) will be our last release series supporting PHP4. There are several reasons for doing this: 1) we have limited resources, so it's hard to keep maintaining two different platforms.
2) PHP5 offers many technical advantages, among them:
- Real opportunities for object oriented programming.
- Improved performance and a more accurate memory usage.
- Brand new XOOPS thinkings and development culture
- Better security through the filter extension.
- DateTime and DateTimeZone objects with methods to manipulate date/time information
- ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files.
- Hooks for tracking file upload progress were introduced (will let us write an accurate progress tracker for file uploads.)