Re: PHP5 or PHP4 this is the question

On Sunday 10 June 2007, tedd wrote: > At 10:05 PM -0400 6/9/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 19:18 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > >> You should get a new server that supports PHP 5.2.1. PHP 4 is dead. > > > >Must be a zombie then because I see it running almost EVERYWHERE. > > > >Cheers, > >Rob. > > Rob: > > You raise an excellent and obvious point. There are significant > differences between 4 and 5 and if we are to code for clients who are > still in 4, then using 5 routines won't work. For those clients, we > must either dumb-down or get them to smarten-up. Considering that I > never get anyone to do anything, I know where that leaves me. Actually, several open source projects are trying to band together to push for PHP 5 compatibility. We're still in early stages, but if you work on an open source project and are interested in joining together on this, contact me off list. :-) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson