Re: Why PHP4?
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Why PHP4? | ||
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Lester Caine wrote:
> Some ISP's are still only supporting rather ancient versions of PHP4.
> They should simply be warned of the security risks. Some ISP's have a
> PHP5 offering, but again an older version simply because it causes
> less problems when converting from PHP4.
The problem for an ISP is - with thousands of customers, he has no way
of knowing who has used what PHP extension or feature. Without
virtually guaranteed backwards compatibility, a mass upgrade of 4 to 5
could be a major headache.
Besides, are the security risks sufficiently severe for the ISP to
warrant the upgrade effort+headache?
/Per Jessen, Zürich