Tag: php5

  • Checking PHP code for compatibility issues

    One project I occassionally hack on is Xerte Toolkits. Yesterday on the mailing list it came up that someone was trying to use XOT with PHP4. After getting over some initial shock that people still use PHP4 (it was end-of-lifed in August 2008) I wondered how easy it would be to check the status of…

  • Silly SoapClient

    Sam made some changes to a SOAP service one customer has – and suddenly our automated tests kept failing. “WTF?” we thought. We persistently got the same error (e.g. Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: object hasn’t ‘SortResults’ property in ….) yet the generated WSDL file (when viewed through a web browser etc) no longer has SortResults in…