#10 Bumblebee does not work under PHP5

[Stuart Prescott]

Bumblebee does not work under PHP5.

Versions prior to 1.0.5 will fail to start at all with
an error as described in Bug #1489465

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1489465&group_id=136489&atid=736023

Even correcting this bug, Bumblebee will not run
correctly under PHP5. You will be able to create users
and groups but not projects. The calendar display will
not work at all.

This is due to the way PHP5 has changed the handling of
objects. The PHP developers claim that PHP5 is
backwards compatible to PHP4, but it appears that only
"echo 'Hello World!';" is actually guaranteed to run.

It will be a lot of work to bring PHP5 compatability
into Bumblebee. Since these changes will be quite
intrusive, they will NOT be made to the stable 1.0
series of Bumblebee. The next stable series (1.2)
should have support for PHP5.

(For the interested, the behaviour of the = operator
has changed between PHP4 and PHP5. Under PHP4, "$newobj
= $obj;" would give you a copy of $obj, but under PHP5
it only gives you a reference to the object.)

[Stuart Prescott]

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Those wanting PHP5 support can try the development snapshots
released as 1.1.x.

The code has had some testing and is looking in good shape
for release soon. The more testing it gets, the faster it
will be released.

Please report your successes and failures with the 1.1.x
codebase. Thanks.