Time for PHP5?

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[quote author="Tom Glover" date="1218329987"]PHP-6 was adopted earlier this year by my old parent company, I don't know what them what to but they did.[/quote]

When working on new applications requiring many months or years of work, it makes sense to write for the future even though the future might not be clear. I do not get a chance to use CI very often anymore other than personal projects for this reason. Over the past six months or so, most of my work has been written using another framework.

The Unicode support in PHP6 could be considered absolutely mandatory by your old company given the need to to support a global audience of end users. CodeIgniter should run under PHP6, but I'm doubtful if it can fully support Unicode beyond UTF-8 in its current state of development.