[theme-reviewers] Using DOMDocument

[Greg Priday]

Thanks Dion. I'm sure each host has their own reason for disabling
standard components. All we can do is try make our code as compatible
as possible.

Time to start rehauling my code!

Cheers,
Greg

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> On 3 May 2012 17:41, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I spent yesterday moving one of my sites over to a new web host, but I
>> ran into issues because the host didn't have DOMDocument installed.
>>
>> The reason I bring this up is because I've submitted 2 themes for
>> review and both of them rely quite heavily on DOMDocument. Was I wrong
>> in thinking DOMDocument is a standard part of PHP 5+?
>>
>> http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php
>
> It's a standard part of PHP5, however, not all PHP installs are
> standard, It's not unexpected to find a host which has disabled/not
> enabled parts of default PHP.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/dom.requirements.php
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/dom.installation.php
>
> Rule of thumb: If the installation page lists a way to disable it,
> there's a host that has disabled it. In many cases it's like relying
> on a PHP Extension, which as you know, isn't always available.
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