Hello!
While I welcome new developments in either procedural or OO interfaces
in PHP I do not agree with breaking BC (between 5.1 and 5.2 in this
case) just for the sake of OO purity. In this example there is the
following class:
<?php
abstract class ezcDbHandler extends PDO
{
public function __construct( $dbParams, $dsn )
{
$user = null;
$pass = null;
$driverOptions = null;
}
abstract static public function getName();
static public function hasFeature( $feature )
{
return false;
}
}
?>
which now with PHP 5.2 throws:
derick@kossu:/home/httpd/ezcomponents/trunk$ php-5.2dev -l /tmp/foo42.php
Fatal error: Static function ezcDbHandler::getName() cannot be abstract in /tmp/foo42.php on line
11
Errors parsing /tmp/foo42.php
And it works fine in PHP 5.1. Now I know that abstract static might not
make much sense OO wise, but it doesn't hurt a single bit to have it
here. Breaking this just because it isn't OO enough is just bogus. So,
when are we going to remove this check so that older apps work again?
regards,
Derick