Re: moving over to php 5

On 10/29/07, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > > Hulf wrote: > > > It is about time I made the jump to 5, however the only thing that is > > holding me back is the problem with hosts. How many hosts still run > > php 4 and am I going to have to spend hours and hours persuading them > > to upgrade before I can run my code? > > There are at least 117,223 hosting companies that are still using PHP4. > Unless they already have an upgrade project going, a single user is > unlikely to convince them to start one. > > > Please let me know if I will find this an easy transition or should I > > hold off for now. > > As a whole, I think you'll find the 4-5 transition easy. Possible > issues: the xsl extension, which was changed from saxon to libxml, and > the Mailparse extension also caused us some grief. We rewrote the code > to use the new xsl stuff, and somehow we also managed to get Mailparse > installed. > > Dave Goodchild wrote: > > > Support for php4 will be dropped at the end of the year so hosts will > > be forced to make the upgrade at some point. > > What will force them to do so? Lack of support is unlikely to have any > effect. > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich I think the real question is.... will listservs (like this one) stop supporting people running applications on PHP4 in 98 days ( http://gophp5.org/)? I'm not saying we should outcast *those people* who haven't transitioned, but will the process speed up if a community puts their foot down? Is this how it will be.................. [example question] I'm running PHP4 and blah blah blah... [example response] Oh, I noticed you said PHP4. Sorry, upgrade, then we'll support... Just a thought... ~Philip