Re: PHP Upgrade: 5 or 6

Tijnema ! wrote: > On 3/28/07, Davi <davividal@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all. >> >> I've reading on some sites [1,2] that PHP 6 is comming soon... >> >> What should I do? >> Migrate my server and apps to PHP 5 now and, later to PHP 6, or wait >> some more >> time and migrate all to PHP 6? >> >> TIA > > > I think you should migrate to PHP5 now, as i think it will take some > time before a real PHP6 release is coming. I don't know where you > useit for. Is it development or productional? For development you > could work with a CVS Snapshot, but that's not recommended for > productional. > But of course if you don't have any problems with the PHP you are > currently using (I guess PHP 4.x), then it's not really needed to > upgrade. I agree and disagree - I agree with "you should migrate to PHP5 *NOW*" (my emphasis added) and I disagree with "then it's not really needed to upgrade." (unless you don't care about security.) Ilia Alshanetsky gave a great talk on this topic recently, http://ilia.ws/talks/ scroll to the bottom to "(PDF) Migrating to PHP 5.2.1". Travis Doherty