Re: PHP5 stable enough for webapps ?

daniel@electroteque.org wrote:

I am in the midst of getting work to implement PHP5 onto a new server for a web based app I am doing using PEAR's DB_DataObject plus some other fancy OO. To give them the piece of mind I would like to know if its stable enough to run for an intranet based app running on Federo Linux. The extensions I am trying to get are DOM XML, XSL , GD, getext + a heap of PEAR packages. I have been developing under PHP5 on Mac OSX so no know issues as yet, but I was the one that did the compiling. Its always a querky finnaky thing when someone else does it for you :| Let me know.

well if you have been working fine on MacOSX then I reckon thats a good indication! ...and if you want to run redhat thats your problem ;-) Yes PHP5 is stable enough to use IMHO, just don't rely on updates to std packages always working (like the redhat packages - which _ahem_ suck). (I have been writing a PHP5 framework since around 11-2003 and I haven't been able to get it to segfault since around May last year.) ...so it runs on Apache2 quite nicely - there is the fact that you must use the prefork apache2 worker module, other than that there are no overwhelming problems (I assume that there are bugs that could crop up - but this is just going on the assumption that bugless software is only made on other planets :-) - at any rate I have pushed PHP5 quite far on Apache2 and nothing is breaking - e.g. many cyclic-object-references, which was something that sometimes caused segfaults in the 'early' days) good luck with the setup, Jochem

Dan (also wondering when php will be apache2 ready, Rusmas care to answer

bad form Dan!!! you spelt his name wrong. tut tut ;-)

without having to repeat yourself though ?? :))