MidCOM on PHP5, finally
Thanks to the efforts by Solt and Piotras, we finally have the MidCOM, the Midgard Component Framework running on top of PHP 5.1.
While we got PHP5 support into Midgard already in August 2004, the big issue has been the tens of thousands of lines of code in the MidCOM framework that had several PHP4 constructions.
Now it is possible to run CVS version of Midgard together with Subversion checkout of MidCOM with PHP 5.1. There are still quite a few PHP Notices around, but I’m feeling optimistic that the final releases of Midgard 1.8 and MidCOM 2.6 will support PHP5. And if that happens we can then drop PHP4 support with clear conscience in the 1.9 series.
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MidCOM is becoming the default API
Looking at the recent developments in Midgard CMS space, it looks like the MidCOM, the Midgard Component Framework developed by Torben Nehmer has finally established itself as the default Midgard development framework for PHP.
MidCOM indexer setup notes
Here are short notes on how I installed the MidCOM indexer for a client. The client has an intranet site running on Midgard 1.6 and MidCOM 2.1.0 on Red Hat Linux 7.3. Install MidCOM 2.3 Download MidCOM 2.3 and install it: # cd /usr/local/share/midgard/ # wget http://www.midgard-project.org/midc...1c9/MidCOM-2.3.0.tar.bz2 # tar jxvf MidCOM-2.3.0.tar.bz2 # ln -s /usr/local/share/midgard/MidCOM-2.3.0 /usr/local/share/midgard/midcom Install the PHP Compat...