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I attended PHP Vikinger in Leuven yesterday which was actually a really cool unconference organised by Derick Rethans. According to unconference standards, talks aren’t really planned in advance which sometimes results in somewhat suprising features.

The item that came up which surprised me the most is the fact that the PHP core developers will choose reverse compatibility above a more than necessary source code cleanup.

This post is actually written in support of the one Chris Ramakers from Inventis wrote yesterday about this very same topic. I surely hope these kind of blog posts will re-open the discussion on this matter and I hope the PHP core developers will reconsider their strategy.

Please read Chris’ blog post and spread the word. Off course it’s the PHP developers who should share their opinion and if the majority feels reverse compatibility is a priority, well then the core guys should stick with it, otherwise a cleanup wouldn’t be a bad idea.

We’re talking about the release of a major version and I think this would be the ideal opportunity to fix some inconsistencies. The argument Derick and Scott used is that they don’t want to piss off PHP developers, but I’m pretty sure some of them will already be pissed off with the fact that register_globals, safe_mode & magic_quotes_gpc will disappear as well.

Think about it …