Five on six

By: Robert Lemke

Last week I've been working a bit on what in TYPO3 4.x is called standard wrap, but for version 5 instead. And then, at Friday night, I came to the point where I needed to implement some functionality doing string operations. As we don't want to fiddle around with the mbstring extension anymore it now was time to try TYPO3 5.0 with PHP6 and take advantage of the Unicode features.

As I'm working on a Mac, I searched for a Mac Port for PHP6 but didn't find any. After some discussion with Karsten I decided to create one on my own. So, if you're interested in trying out PHP6 as well and develop on a Mac, please try out my PHP6 Mac Port. You find all instructions in the TYPO3 5.0 wiki.

I'm by far no Mac Ports expert, in fact I just learned enough to get this running for myself. Therefore any initiative to improve this package, including taking it over completely, is appreciated.

My motivation and goal is that the developers of TYPO3 5.0 just have to type in "port install php6 +typo3" and get everything they need, including the Java Bridge and xdebug. And of course we should make that equally easy on other platforms - if possible ;-)