Rage9 is the shit

[1nspire]

Not sure if this the best place for this but since we negotiated this on wickedfire I wanted to make a thread about.

Rage9 wrote a script for me and his service was great. Delivered the script on time and provided professional support after the sale. His code was written very well and was easy to read. Rage9 wrote the script using the latest 5.3 php release which IMO demonstrated that Rage stays on top of the development of php and is not a lazy coder stuck in old code techniques.

In short I got excellent deal on a script that I know will not break any time soon. My script is more current than most servers at this moment.

Thanks Rage9 for a job well done.

1nspire

 

[Bofu2U]

May I have a review copy of your review please? Drop me a PM - Thanks.

 

[Refrozen]

ugh, I wish I had clients that liked me using the latest PHP version.



I'm sure most of the programmers here are used to hearing "HURR DURR WRITE IT FOR PHP 4.0.0.0.1 PLZ"

 

[kblessinggr]

Now I wouldn't blame someone for coding for 5.2.* , since most scripts are currently compatible with it. But I usually stay away from the latest major revision, such as 5.3 because there's still a bit broken with it until it gets rewritten in 5.3.

But in terms of writing from scratch, between 5.2 and 5.3 there's not a huge amount of differences, just don't use short tags by default and be aware of some of the depreciated functionality.

@ Refrozen, I'm actually seeing most hosts I run into using at least 5.2.* now, only host I ran into in the last 6 months that actually still had 4.* running was mediaTemple, its probably because the owner of the account never bothered to upgrade, or didn't have automatic update enabled (or had a very old script that died when tried on 5.*)

 

[Rage9]

Thanks for the kind words 1nspire, and no didn't ask him to write it.

But in terms of writing from scratch, between 5.2 and 5.3 there's not a huge amount of differences, just don't use short tags by default and be aware of some of the depreciated functionality.

Yup. There where also a few changes, like a third parameter being added to strstr and stristr which I ended up using.... until it couldn't run on his server. Easy enough to bring to 5.2 compliant.