Re: PHP5 stable enough for webapps ?

* daniel@electroteque.org <daniel@electroteque.org>: > 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 :| We've been using it on a production server now for three weeks, and have had no issues as of yet -- no segfaults, no memory leaks. It just performs. We're using GD to a small extent, and quite a lot of PEAR. We've been using it in development since July 2004, and I've seen very few issues. The only issue I have seen has been with overriding error handling -- a few bugs we had created some cascading errors that ended up segfaulting our systems, but those were probably errors of ours, not of PHP's. (That's why they're _development_ servers, right?) I'd say, go for it. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | mailto:matthew@garden.org Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association | http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org