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After reading an article on the IBM site named “The future of PHP” I started wondering how this will effect CodeIgnitor and how it could improve it.

We all know the team here are big fans of supporting PHP 4 which is good, so am I. But for those of us not restricted by keeping everyone else happy we can do as we like eh?

Im thinking the onset of Namespaces are going to be pretty handy here. Would be great if they could be worked into the core to stop so many problems using controller or model methods called view() and load() etc.

As far as I can tell though, PHP 6 looks like it will run CodeIgnitor perfectly fine. Due to the EllisLab teams high coding standards there wont be any issues at all with the upgrade to 5.3 or 6.

Am I wrong?

I use PHP 6 sometimes on my dev machine, and the only thing I’ve had to change are the lines which are handling the magic_quotes settings.

I guess it will effect us if we get the chance to make the move. As a developer it can’t come soon enough to make the work easier but economical you have to convince your client the step from one programming language version to another will benefit him too.

Personally i would wait until 5.3 is out to convert php 4 sites then you could go to php6 with minimal changes.

CI works, with very little changes, very well on all of our servers that run php6.