Travis Doherty wrote:
What about the argument that PHP4 is dead. It's done. It's over.
There is no reason anyone should be using it, less perhaps a lack of
time to tweak scripts for an upgrade from 4 to 5. Even if that is the
case, get to work :p
"Support for PHP 4 will be dropped at the end of the year, 8 months from
now. So now is the time to start upgrading all your scripts as we won't
be releasing new versions after December 31st, 2007."
http://derickrethans.nl/php_quebec_conference_rip_php_4.php
Travis Doherty
This is fine, as long as the newer versions are backwardly compatible.
If , in particular, if the next version or version 6 does not support
the PHP 4 object oriented model, it could present real problems for some
software. PHP isn't used only for "scripts" but for large projects.
For example, I just began to configure a DokuWicki installation, writing
code for various features which are not included in the install.
DokuWicki uses the PHP 4 object oriented model throughout, and user
plugins, such as mine, are written to the same model. DokuWicki
contains over 300 php files and more than 3 megs of code. It would be
no small task to convert such a project over to the PHP 5 OO model.
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