Here’s a tech note, also known as an open thread, as I delve into the wealth of new goodies in PHP 5. At some point after installing our new server last year, our gracious, kind, and all-powerful web hosting company upgraded our version of PHP from version 4 to version 5 — but somehow I missed the memo. Imagine my shock to check out a phpinfo() command recently and discover that LGF is running the latest and greatest, with all those nice new functions for JSON and XML parsing, better object orientation, etc., instead of lumbering along with PHP 4 as I had thought.

So I’m refactoring all our code that reads and parses JSON or XML to use the built-in (and much faster) PHP 5 functions instead of using outdated external classes and libraries written for PHP 4.

So like I was sayin’, here’s yer open thread for a Sunday afternoon as I geek out into the void.