Re: Quick Poll: PHP 4 / 5

Hello, on 09/13/2005 07:52 PM Ryan A said the following:

I'm a bit curious, so far I have had no need to upgrade my skills or use the slightly different format / functions of PHP 5.x.....infact I have not seen all that many hosts actually having support for it, so I thought of this little poll :-)

I think this survey already answers your doubts: http://www.nexen.net/interview/index.php?id=49 It shows there only 3.5% of the polled servers are exposing the use of PHP 5, against the use of PHP 4 in 95% of the servers. Personally I keep using PHP 4 and do not see the motivation to upgrade. First because, for me, PHP 4 is already a feature complete language for Web development. Second, because I do not have the time nor the patience to chase all the backward incompatibilities of PHP 5 that will break the code of my sites. Actually I am even scared to try PHP 5 in sites that I have with large code bases because it is very hard to fully test them in development environment. It is not impossible to test a large site in development environment to find the possible problems, but it would take a lot of time and still many details could escape, so I am not interested to risk and put a site up malfunctioning due to PHP 5 incompatibilities, especially when PHP 4 worked so well for all these years. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html