RE: [PHP] PHP3 vs PHP4 -- anybody know the numbers?

On 27-Sep-2001 Joel Ricker wrote: > > I'm preparing a script to release on some of the script directories and had > a quick question about PHP3 and PHP4 usage. Does anyone know roughly how > many more people are still using PHP3 or have switched to PHP4. What I've > done since I'm using objects and also PHP3 is to explicity set class names > since commands like get_class() isn't available in PHP4, plus a few other > things that I've had to hard code to get around some things that PHP4 has > that I wanted in my PHP3 code. > > The reason I wanted to know was, should I in the code I release, keep it in > PHP3 functionality or switch it up to PHP4-only routines? In other words, > are there enough people besides myself using PHP3 to both making it PHP3 > compatible? Any advice? > I've a couple of clients still on PHP3 (2 of 5), for them i write an include: if (! function_exists('array_pop')) include('libphp4.php3'); libphp4.php3 fakes the missing functions where possible . Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.