[Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility

[Julian Tenney]

I have this so no? But it might be in the repo?

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
Sent: 16 October 2013 14:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility

Go to management.php
Log in
Go to templates (central templates)
I think it is at the bottom

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Well, talk about them here. If you committed the app store stuff, it's in there (I'm not sure how I'd know?). The idea of others building their own templates has always seemed a good one to me, but it has never really taken off. Maybe one day...

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
Sent: 16 October 2013 13:51

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility

It's fine to consider it a separate block of work, much like a bug fix (which it is effectively)

At the moment when I use XOT there are a few itches I kind of want to change, but I don't feel it is "fair" to submit them as I could see others would never need them, but I don't know this for definite?

An example, no one seems that fussed about writing new modules, so I don't know if "the app store" ever made it into the main code, but as a sort of self-employed developer person having an app store really appeals, but perhaps the itch approach doesn't offer a certainty in terms of investing time in it?



On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
So we need to weigh up the pros and cons... smaller pieces of work are much easier to progress than larger ones. Re-writing everything to use an API and completely re-writing all the code is a big job, too big a job I think, unless someone is going to sit down at it for a couple of months and that's not realistic unless we can pay them. The problem we started discussing was how to handle the PHP 5.5 thing. Scratch you own itch suggests those wanting to use 5.5 should shoulder the costs / efforts. If a simple fix is a few days' work, then Ron might want to talk to his contact about the possibility of finding £1000 for someone here to take on the coding? We can return to the ongoing discussions about APIs / abstraction / design patterns later: I sense those discussions could be paralysis, though of course I see the potential.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 16 October 2013 12:10

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: PHP compatibility


On 16 Oct 2013, at 11:53, Pat @ Pgogy <xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>> wrote:

How long would it take to change the code over to abstraction - honestly - I'd say 2-3 days (I internationalised over a weekend)

Yes, and then :

a. There was refactoring and bug fixing by others for days/weeks afterwards

b. If there had been a discussion beforehand, perhaps a different (and perhaps better) solution might have been chosen.

I'm all for someone 'fixing' the mysql_ stuff - but there needs to be a short discussion beforehand. There are 101 different possible approaches - some are more equal than others etc.


There's a big difference between replacing instances of 'mysql_query' and associated stuff with db_query* versus making some sort of library/api.

The effort/changes required for a library/api would probably replace/rewrite/overwrite whatever may have been done changing things to use e.g. db_query*.


David.



But it just feels a bit odd to just do the database stuff

I will do it for 9,999 pounds

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