Re: PHP4 vs PHP5

Travis Doherty wrote:

What about the argument that PHP4 is dead. It's done. It's over. There is no reason anyone should be using it, less perhaps a lack of time to tweak scripts for an upgrade from 4 to 5. Even if that is the case, get to work :p "Support for PHP 4 will be dropped at the end of the year, 8 months from now. So now is the time to start upgrading all your scripts as we won't be releasing new versions after December 31st, 2007." http://derickrethans.nl/php_quebec_conference_rip_php_4.php Travis Doherty This is fine, as long as the newer versions are backwardly compatible. If , in particular, if the next version or version 6 does not support the PHP 4 object oriented model, it could present real problems for some software. PHP isn't used only for "scripts" but for large projects. For example, I just began to configure a DokuWicki installation, writing code for various features which are not included in the install. DokuWicki uses the PHP 4 object oriented model throughout, and user plugins, such as mine, are written to the same model. DokuWicki contains over 300 php files and more than 3 megs of code. It would be no small task to convert such a project over to the PHP 5 OO model.

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