NYCPHP Meetup

[Mark Armendariz]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Mark Armendariz wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend an open source CMS (or possibly commercial if
>> worthwhile) that works natively on php5 (e_strict)and MySQL 5
>> (strict).
>
> Do you think that perhaps all of these CMSes might have some problems with
> all the strict requirements?
>
> After all, people use these packages every day without the problems you've
> experienced...
>
>

I've just installed them all (not drupal) this morning and they all
have problems with strict.  A few minutes with google confirms this
fact (including the link I provided to cake where the devs explicitly
state that they don't plan on updating for strict mode).  It's not
that people don't have this problem, it's that they turn off E_STRICT
and go about their way.  A similar configuration issue has come up in
the past with everyone turning on "register_globals" and going about
their way and don't we all just love register_globals.  I personally
have a hard time saying ok to source code that throws warnings and
notices on a vanilla install, even if they are just strict warnings.

I know people use them every day, but that doesn't make them reliable.
 PHP Nuke and OSCommerce have been used by hundreds of thousands for
years and I wouldn't trust either for client work.

I'll take a look at Drupal 6 per recommendations, but 5 scared me
plenty.  I spent more time working around drupal 5 than I would have
writing my own solution.

Any others out there?

Thanks again.

Mark