[wp-hackers] Getting started with the Source of Wordpress

[Michael Wechner]

Sai and Alex, thanks very much for the quick feedback

Cheers

Michael


Alex Günsche wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:40 +0100, Michael Wechner wrote:
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>>I would like to get started with the source of Wordpress in order to 
>>hopefully help on the APP implementation.
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>There is a great documentation available at http://codex.wordpress.org.
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>> From the requirements at http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ it's 
>>not really clear to me if PHP 5 is also supported.
>>I know 5 is greater than 4.2, but at the bottom it says things about 
>>"Why not bleeding edge version ..."
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>WP runs perfectly on PHP 5. But it might be (for whatever reasons) that
>some plugins or themes are not PHP 5 ready. Also, I experienced problems
>with specific PHP 5 Debian packages from 3-party-sources. For example,
>there are builds of PHP 5.0.5 and 5.2 which produce problems with the
>Gettext implementation used in WordPress. Apart from this, I haven't
>ever heard of problems with PHP 5, and I'm very busy at the German WP
>forums.
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>>Maybe this is a stupid question, but unfortunately I am not familiar 
>>with PHP, but in Java land these things can matter ;-)
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>Theoretically it can be, but only in a few cases -- much rarer than in
>Java land. ;)
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>Regards,
>Alex
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