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PHP 4 - End of Life (EOL)

 
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PHP 4 - End of Life (EOL)
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post 16 Jul, 2007 - 11:36 AM
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PHP 4 end of life announcement

13-Jul-2007

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.


Guess it's time to upgrade.
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post 16 Jul, 2007 - 01:13 PM
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About time. I can`t stand it when the same friggin thing comes in two versions. Like Ubuntu. GET THE FUCKING LAST VERSION FOR CHRISTS SAKE! Call ignorant, but I really see no advantage to using old versions. Adapt or die.
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post 16 Jul, 2007 - 01:29 PM
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xp over vista?


until vista gets an update xp is the best choice for alot of people.

just read a story in the journal about the tech editor , 'upgrading' to xp on his new lappy.
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post 16 Jul, 2007 - 03:09 PM
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I was stuck on a php4 server for my last big coding project. No constuctors, what a terrible thing,
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post 16 Jul, 2007 - 06:48 PM
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QUOTE(max302 @ 16 Jul, 2007 - 05:13 PM) *

About time. I can`t stand it when the same friggin thing comes in two versions. Like Ubuntu. GET THE FUCKING LAST VERSION FOR CHRISTS SAKE! Call ignorant, but I really see no advantage to using old versions. Adapt or die.



Okay, let's say it all together now: LEGACY CODE!

Sometimes, you can't upgrade right away because you have legacy code to maintain, and adapting to a new version can be a major hassle (like searching through hundreds of thousands of lines of code!)

Take for example the new version of Python that's being worked on. From what I understand, it's not 100% backwards compatible. Which means old code will have to be run on python 2.4, or you'll have to rewrite the code. bleh.
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About time too I say...

I've been using PHP5 since pretty much the week it was released, and it seems like forever ago. Yet an associate recently purchased a dedicated hosting account which only supports PHP4 and offers no way to run PHP5. I'd been happily modding away at phpBB to provide the customised forum they wanted and realised at the last minute that I had to rewrite everything in bulky and non-OO PHP4 code.

Now I'm gonna have to convert it back to 5 whenever the hosts realise there's no longer any support... which they're probably too lazy to do until well after 4 is discontinued.

I can understand the need for old versions for legacy code, but when service providers are forcing me to write brand new software in legacy environments I just wanna scream...

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