Minor Tweaks

posted by: spayced
on: 07-30-2007

Well I upgraded to PHP 5.11 and my create account page died. I didn't get any emails about it, so apparently the account creation demand is minimal. I did some poking around and found out that the captcha (authimage.php) failed to find the gd.so library, so I had to install php5-gd manually. Oddly it isn't installed by default. I'll look into adding some random lines to make the captcha beat a little edge detection.

I peeked at the PHP manual during this exercise, and the table of contents gave me the impression that PHP is getting quite bulky. PHP5 has full classes and a myriad of functions, is it all really necessary? I suspect that the authors' solution is to restrict the libraries installed so that the programmer has to add more him/herself. I'm not sure this is the best solution. Perhaps we need someone to step in and make a PHPLite?

I also did some minor formatting tweaks. I feel sad that I don't have time in my day to do much more than that.

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