Joomla 3.5B1 & PHP7

Great that you are testing php7, Sackgesicht.

Did you notice any speed improvements with your setup? Or is it a bit too premature too ask?

Jeff,

using Joomla Debug, i can see a speed improvement between PHP 5.6.16 and 7.0.

But more obvious is the memory gain between the versions. Depending on your fields (and their content), Cobalt 8 can consume a huge amount of memory. An example: List (intro) view of a TYPE with 3 relation fields showing 20 records consumes under PHP 5.6.16 ~53MB against PHP 7.0 ~ 33MB / 1620ms against 1240ms.

Another section with a complicated setup has 4647ms with PHP 5.6.16 and 1828ms with PHP 7.0 / 37.4 MB -> 25.2 MB

I hope Cobalt 9 will turn out to be more memory conservative than Cobalt 8.

All errors fixed. thank you for testing and reporting.

Great gains with PHP 7.0 here!

Apart from some warnings, does Cobalt + Joomla 3.5B.1 + PHP7 work well together?

Jeff Apart from some warnings, does Cobalt + Joomla 3.5B.1 + PHP7 work well together?

It seems yes. I will do more testing after the next update.

As i understand from another topic that there will be a Cobalt 9 release within the month, I'm very sure it will be fully compatible when Joomla releases the final 3.5 version.

I use a Gantry4 template on my test setup which throws a lot of warnings. Gantry5 (which is faster overall) seems working nicely.

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; JS_Image_Resizer has a deprecated constructor in /libraries/mint/resizeimage.php on line 29

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; plgMintToolset has a deprecated constructor in /plugins/mint/toolset/toolset.php on line 13

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; plgContentDirectPHP has a deprecated constructor in /plugins/content/DirectPHP/DirectPHP.php on line 23

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Markdown_Parser has a deprecated constructor in /libraries/mint/markdown.php on line 224

Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; MarkdownExtra_Parser has a deprecated constructor in /libraries/mint/markdown.php on line 1686

Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in /components/com_cobalt/views/records/tmpl/default_markup_default.php on line 177