Re: Earlier versions hurt PHP 5

Not sure where you are looking for web hosting companies, but my experience is that most hosting companies that offer Linux and Apache, love it, even back in the more stable PHP4 platform. It has a small footprint, especially when the same server hosts many domains with many web applications and when coupled with MySQL which most are, it screams speed, with a very robust collection of functions and internet connectivity capability. I think you might want to check your figures on what "most" web hosting companies offer. I had a conversation with my host provider on this very subject and they are reporting week demand for php5, even though they expect that to change. Warren Vail Be careful when throwing out the bath water, there could still be a very valuable baby in it. Many PHP open source applications like PHP-Nuke and, I believe, Sugar CRM, just to name a few, are remaining on PHP4, at least for a while longer. At 12:34 PM 12/19/2005, PHPDiscuss - PHP Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote:

As a developer, I would love to use PHP 5+ for applications but I am afraid to do so because 90% of web hosting companies do not offer it. The biggest reason that that they do not offer it is because there is little demand for it. The reason why there is little demand for it is that developers do not use it because webhosts do not support it. A classic catch 22 situation! I think that continuing to offer prominent download links for PHP 4 versions on the same page as download links for php 5 on the php.net and Zend sites is a major contributor to this problem. To get PHP 5 accepted, links to download earlier versions should be hidden away in some obsure area. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php