Re: PHP3 & PHP4 questions
| From: | Mark Maggelet | Date: | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 04:54:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP3 & PHP4 questions | ||
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:55:21 +0800, pet lover (petshub@asia1.com)
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is a newbie question.
>
>I was told by my hosting company that my server run on PHP3.
>Below is the reason that was given to me by my hosting company for
>my server
>running on PHP3.
>
>"We can't upgrade to php4 on the virtual servers as we have other
>client who
>still using php3."
It's possible to support both on the same apache.
>I think he is trying to say that if he upgrade the server to PHP4,
>other
>sites on the same server using PHP3 will have problems? Isn't PHP
>backward
>compatible?
not completely.
>He want to charge me for a migration fee to a server with PHP4. Is
it
>advisable to migrate to a PHP4 supported server?
>
>Thank you.
If you don't mind running it as a cgi, you can probably just put a
copy of php4 in your cgi-bin folder and they'll never even notice.
- Mark