Comments on: PHP 4 Good Riddance http://blog.hawkhost.com/2008/08/08/php-4-good-riddance/ All things Hawk Host Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:58:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fenerli http://blog.hawkhost.com/2008/08/08/php-4-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-603 fenerli Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:08:13 +0000 http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/?p=120#comment-603 I would have thought the thing holding you back was people using apps that are yet to be ported to PHP5. An increasing amount of my freelance work is ensuring at least basic compatibility with PHP5 and it's amazing how much there is. There is also a sad side to it, most of them have no reason for being incompatible besides developer incompetence which has become a factor for why it's taking so long for the transition to PHP5. Developers also like to have branches or maybe backwards compatible code and would like PHP4 to test on. Not that much of a problem though as I just use a separate host for that, one with an admin crazy enough to have PHP 4, 5 and 6-dev running concurrently. But then, it's probably still not worth the hassle in keeping it and maintaining two versions and worrying about the security issues. Strictly speaking, you should be applauded for helping the rest of the world say good riddance to that wretched PHP4 :D I would have thought the thing holding you back was people using apps that are yet to be ported to PHP5. An increasing amount of my freelance work is ensuring at least basic compatibility with PHP5 and it’s amazing how much there is. There is also a sad side to it, most of them have no reason for being incompatible besides developer incompetence which has become a factor for why it’s taking so long for the transition to PHP5.

Developers also like to have branches or maybe backwards compatible code and would like PHP4 to test on. Not that much of a problem though as I just use a separate host for that, one with an admin crazy enough to have PHP 4, 5 and 6-dev running concurrently.

But then, it’s probably still not worth the hassle in keeping it and maintaining two versions and worrying about the security issues. Strictly speaking, you should be applauded for helping the rest of the world say good riddance to that wretched PHP4 :D

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