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TRUSTAbyss
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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: PHP4 will be Discontinued after this year |
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I knew this day would happen but the good news is that you have until the end of 2007 to switch over to PHP5. Also, they are still going to make security fixes for PHP4 until August 08, 2008 if there is any. I'm already using PHP5 so it doesn't effect me. lol
Here's the news article.
| php.net wrote: | 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.
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aprelium
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: PHP4 will be Discontinued after this year |
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That's not a great loss for the humanity. :-) PHP 4 had a very bad objects model, several half baked concepts glued together, and issues related to bad design decisions.
Hopefully PHP 6 will be cleaner and more performant.
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rrinc
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Finally, its about time. Now, lets wait for PHP 6 hehe.
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TRUSTAbyss
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| rrinc wrote: | | Finally, its about time. Now, lets wait for PHP 6 hehe. |
Here's a list of changes that will probably be done with PHP6. The APC module will be built into PHP, which allows you to have a nice cache system but it won't be enabled by default. PHP6 looks promising but alot of things will change that can effect older PHP code.
Prepare for PHP6
http://www.corephp.co.uk/archives/19-Prepare-for-PHP-6.html |
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aprelium
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Some of these features are going to break compatibility with old scripts. But that's the price to pay to make PHP less "amateurish" and better suited to advanced coding.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:54 am Post subject: |
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I'm actually looking forward to the changes...even the ones that affect old scripts, its about time they remove all the "deprecated" stuff (like the $HTTP_*_VARS).
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