REST api interface plugin - PHP4 or PHP5?
October 31st, 2007 Posted in development, plugins
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This is just a short post to ask for some advice and/or opinions.
I am working on the generic XML and JSON generating functions as part of the REST interface plugin that is currently in development.
I have started using the plugin in-house with good results and performance, but as we are running PHP5 pretty much exclusively here - it makes use of the native PHP5 XML and JSON functionality.
My question is - is it worth me providing a PHP4 version which uses external libraries? Or, more to the point - how many people out there are still running on PHP4 based servers?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:16 am
Well, there are still a lot of people with PHP4, but I think PHP5 is the way to go. And I am not the only one: http://www.gophp5.org/
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Thanks for the link Rick.
If there is enough call at a later date then I may try to hunt down some external libraries.
I think I will release the initial version as PHP5 only. The built in JSON and XML libraries are just too nice not to use
Barry
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 am
When will this RESTful interface plugin be released? I’m anxious to see how it will work!