Future plans

Permanent: "Future plans"
3rd January 2006

The DKP Log Parser project should be fine for a while, so I'm turning my attention to other projects. More specifically I'm going to work on improving DFCrafters and Lokorin.com (this site).

The last time I cleaned the sites I had a future migration to PHP 5 in mind. I currently have the time, and PHP 5 is stable enough, so I'm formally switching over from 4.x to 5.x . Some might want to take a look at a good article about PHP 5 (albeit a bit outdated) to get an understanding of the changes. The improvements that I like the most in PHP 5.x are probably the object model (which makes me feel at home, as I primarily use Java) along with the error handling system with exceptions (once again inspired by Java).

So how much work has to be done to migrate? Not a lot in my case. The pages are already built with an OO approach (just take a look at the source code), so I will mostly be searching and replacing keywords. I will also take the opportunity to test some new ideas (in order to not fall asleep).

As usual DFCrafters will be first and will be used as a small scale testing ground before Lokorin.com .