Re: how old is this version of PHP?

Sebastian Krebs wrote:

Do we just accept that we have to rewrite every program we ever wrote every

time a new version comes out? A little extreme, but you get my point. Comments? Suggestions? My 2 cent: I hadn't any major issues with BC since 5.3 and from 5.2 it required a little bit to do, but was solveable (means: It wasn't complicated, but only an afternoon time to invest). Caine complaints from time to time his codebase here. That is nothing new and I am unsure how representative his statements are.

My 'problem' came about through taking over a couple of small hosting companies who had sites across several ISP's and various versions of PHP ( and ASP thrown in for good measure ). Every site required a day or so's work to tidy up, and little problems thrown in like the <?= cock-up which took down 5 sites when that ISP 'upgraded' PHP to the problem version. But the main problem still is making things E_STRICT compliant since PHP5.4 tends to be set up with it enabled and PHP5.3 will be fazed out on ISP's at some point. I'm slowly moving sites to servers where I do have control of the framework, but 'just an afternoons work' across a large number of sites and fire fighting when sites go down without prior warning all takes time ... I can't really complain, I've been picking up customers who's sites have been affected and earning money from them :) I have to say no to a lot though as there are only so many hours in a day. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk