User:Fisharebest

If you haven't come across me on the forums, I am one of the PGV developers.

I have been developing software since the late 1970s and contributing to PGV since 2006.

Random thoughts on PGV:

• We should abandon support for PHP4.

• Using classes is not the same thing as OO. OO requires other important concepts such as abstraction and data-hiding.

• We should replace Pear::DB with something that isn't deprecated, such as PDO.

• We should remove all presentation and layout from the HTML and put it in CSS.

• We should use PHP's multibyte and internationalisation libraries instead of wasting time on our own slow/broken version.

• Store everything in the database. This means everything. It includes all the stuff we currently store in files.

• We need a data model that models the data, not one that models gedcom files. This will mean dropping support for synchronised gedcom files (which would be a good thing in itself).

• Replace print_XXX() with print XXX();