Aprium Software

The new version of Drupal 6.14 now supports PHP 5.3. This news was tacked onto the bottom of the 6.14 release notes and read:

Drupal 6.14 is the first stable release to support PHP 5.3.0, but this might not be true about the contributed modules you are using. Watch out for updates to your contributed modules if you experience problems with PHP 5.3.0 support.

This is great news for me because like many OS X users I upgraded to snow leopard which comes bundled with PHP 5.3 and stop all by Drupal projects from running.

I have been recently working with a new contractor and he mentioned after looking at my code that I should think about auto loading the php includes using the __autoload method. At first this sounded great but I soon saw the limitations in this magic method.

The method is called when a class is instantiated but is not defined as a last ditch attempt to find it. Writing a basic function to load in classes that have not been included yet is easy but I wanted a system to include everything.