Thursday, 12 April 2007

Article: Know About the First Open Source Framework Using PHP6

David Coallier gives you first hand information about the first source framework using PHP6. The abstract reports that big applications are the motor of the development of languages. With them, you can test the limits of the language, detect bugs and suggest ameliorations. This also applies to PHP and is even more important in a period of intense development like the one PHP is living right now.

The abstract also contains reference about Jaws, a content management system written in PHP. The web site informs you that it is intended in this Google Summer of Code project to revamp the internals of Jaws and migrate it from PHP 4 to PHP 6.

It further tells you about the three phases of the project. The first one is the planning of the new internals, based on the current code base. This will be done in concordance with all the current developers of the project and mentors and will last about two weeks. The second and longest phase is the actual development of the new internals, which will last eight weeks, during which contributions to the code base will be on a daily basis. The third phase is the testing phase, where the new code base is implemented in a real-life environment and extensively tested.