Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Spam: JavaScript Usage

[Nathan S. H. <nat...@uk...>]

John Finlay wrote:
> There are many advantages to using JavaScript.  The biggest reason why JavaScript is used for menus is because they work better in a multi-lingual environment particularly in RTL languages.  I've tried converting to straight HTML/CSS menus but could never get them to work correctly in all languages.  Perhaps someone with more experience than I could get them to work.  Of course site admins who don't need all of the language support could make their own theme however they like.
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> JavaScript also provides another layer of abstraction.  Instead of help.php?which=blah we use help_popup('blah') and then if we ever need to make a change we only have to change in one place.  It essentially equates to the same thing with the help_popup() javascript function calling the  page help_text.php?help=DBTYPE.  Another advantage, javascript allows us to set the size of the window.
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> The actual text is defined in languages/help_text.xx.php.  Whatever is passed in through the "help" parameter is used as a key to lookup the entry in that file.  The text is also run through the print_text() function to do variable replacing and other pre-processing before the text is actually printed.
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> XML has been considered, but XML support is still so limited in PHP 4 that we haven't done anything with it for the languages.  We also wanted to keep the format of all of the language files consistent.  
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> With Web 2.0 and AJAX the industry is also moving toward more JavaScript and you will find in the 4.2 branch that JavaScript is going to be used a lot more.
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> --John
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> 

OK, I think I'm sold!

According to the PHP website, PHP4 support will be withdrawn at the end 
of the year, since PHP5 is now 3yrs old - making only security fixes 
until the middle of next year.

Will PGV continue supporting PHP4 or use PHP5 as it's minimum version?