pedro mpa wrote:
Greetings! I am building a website using PHP 5.1.2 and MySQL 5.0.18 and I am using windows xp with IIS. All the hosting companies I have contacted are using php 4.x.x and mysql 4.x.x or 3.x.x, on linux I suppose. Are php versions the same for every os/platform? Thanks in advance.
PHP 5.1.2 is the 'latest and greatest', or pretty close to it. For various reasons, hosting companies tend to be reluctant to upgrade such things; the old (USA, anyway) engineer's adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind --- and these hosting companies figure that it's working and they don't want to take chances, IMHO. An even greater reason behind this fact/trend that you notice is that PHP has become so well-known that websites of all types are using it, even those whose "webmasters" don't know much about how to write in/use the language; therefore they are using "c'n'p ed" scripts from the net that may date back some distance in Net-Time; register_globals must be on, "long" global arrays (although they're pretty much backwards- compatible with PHP 5.X), etc., and deprecated $foo ad nauseum. The hosting companies don't want their helpdesks flooded with calls of "OMG my site is down!", and "Why doesn't my shopping cart | contact form | uploader | downloader | gallery | ... work???" During my last local update of PHP I finally updated php.ini as well; took me quite a while to get my business interface running probably again because I'd written the first scripts with "short tags" years ago. That's the sort of thing they don't want to have to deal with just yet. Of course, the day will come anyway, so they'd better be getting ready.... Richard Lynch wrote: ] I'm betting that you can get PHP 5.x out of http://pair.com, since ] they host http://php.net and you gotta figure they're on top of things ] like that, eh? Pair.com would probably be an excellent choice. Not only do they host php.net, but they are very supportive of the Open-Source movement as a whole, <flamebait>and run the best OS on the planet </fb>. ] YMMV ] NAIAA ] IANAL Neither am I. TIFWIW .... Kevin Kinsey -- Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
