GoPHP5

[eluser]linuxbz[/eluser]
@WeeJames,

There is a fork of CI called Kohana, but they are facing the same reluctance to go PHP5-only that CI is. They will probably gradually produce plugins, etc., that are PHP5-only, and the break with PHP4 may occur a bit sooner, but both frameworks will be closely watching the proportion of PHP4/5 of potential users. The announcement of end-of-support for PHP4 will probably accelerate things.

However, there is no reason you can't design your application for PHP5, even if you are using CI. Your models can use PHP5-style constructors, etc. There may be a few things that you have to watch, but you CAN use PHP5 with CI. Then whenever CI converts its libraries to PHP5, you will have a minimum of migration to do.

I have an application that was originally PHP5, but I re-wrote it for PHP4 for CI. If I were doing it again, I would have kept all the models in PHP5 ... since it's the sort of application that should be running on a school's intranet, and I can see no reason they shouldn't be able to install PHP5 if they aren't using it already. I will convert it back to PHP5 with the next major revision.