Re: 'God' has spoken... :-)

From:	Jochem Maas	Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:16:40 +0000
Subject:	Re: 'God' has spoken... :-)
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Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, August 17, 2005 2:05 am, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 8/15/05, Miles Thompson <miles@allnovascotia.com> wrote:
The problem with PHP 5 is that the ISP's have to be so conservative. There's no tagging mechanism which says "process these files with PHP5, use PHP 4 for everything else."
Does anyone here remember that on php 3 the file extensions were .php3? That made moving to php4 easy- files ending in .php3 was parsed as 3, and files ending in .php were parsed as 4. Why not do something similar when moving to 5 or 6?
The .php3 extension was more of a pain in the ass than it saved... It was also possible to compile PHP3 and PHP4 in the same Apache - I do not think you can do that with 4/5. However, Rasmus posted a lovely explanation in this forum for EXACTLY how to have both 4 & 5 running on the same box. Search for "Rasmus Lerdorf" and "proxy server" and it should come up. Maybe like 3 or 4 months ago?

actually he posted (an update?) a full on explanation (again!) just 5 days ago (on the 14th August 2005) on how to do it in reply to this thread! and he makes it sound so easy :-)