A Plan For PHP 5

I'm a bit distracted by other things at the moment, but I'll write this up in the hope that it makes me more likely to do it. I still have no idea if it will work.

• When it starts, RdMise will check which DOM extensions are installed, and throw a fit if it doesn't find one.
• If dom is found, two functions are defined: LoadXMLFile will create a DOMDocument object, use the load function and return a reference to the object. LoadXMLString will do exactly the same thing with the loadXML function.
• If domxml is found, the same two functions will be defined, but using a new DOMDocumentWrapper object instead.
• DOMDocumentWrapper will act a lot like PHP 5's DOMDocument, but internally it will use a PHP 4 DOMDocument. It will only have the functions that RdMise needs.
• All the RdMise XML code will be changed to use the PHP 5 object. RdPress contains no DOM code, so it shouldn't need to be changed.

Edit from the mysterious future: Please note, I didn't actually do any of this. I gave up on DOM and switched to using PHP's expat functions.

Tags: php rdmise / Posted on 22 May 2005 at 15:34