The WordPress and PHP 5 debate has sparked up (again?), mostly brought on by the discussion on the mailing list and Matt’s post on PHP 5. I think this post on funkatron.com explains it pretty well — what we do now with a mess of code could, in a lot of cases, be made into OOP code that is a lot simpler, plus PHP 5 has many advantages such as PDO, which the Habari project …
Ever since I started using the PXS Mail Form plugin in favor of WP-ContactForm for my contact page, I always had problems with it conflicting with the Markdown plugin. Namely, that it disabled the Markdown formatting, and left me with a pile of rubbish.
At the time I decided to keep Markdown and disabled PXS Mail Form, and my contact page took a vacation, but I finally managed to take some time to look a little …
I find it highly ironic that PHP’s somewhat infamous safe_mode is listed under “Features” in the PHP manual.
So, I’m quite a reader of Particletree. They’ve got good articles, and it’s a solid read every time a new article pops up in my feed reader. Except when I try to comment, it took about 30 seconds to tell me that, no, I could not comment, because I “didn’t have JavaScript enabled.”
Two things:
After hearing much buzz about it, I decided to take CSSEdit for a test run. I don’t know — maybe I’m just stupid or something — but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do anything. The only thing I could actually figure out how to do was to edit the source by hand, which I can do easily enough in TextMate.
I suppose I’ll start looking through the help readings, but …
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