End of the line for PHP 4

We have a mixture of PHP4 and PHP5 ....: ... on different servers and the same codebase supports both. OK, that means that we are not using some advanced PHP5 features but we know that the transition can be done without breaking anything.

Moving from PHP4 to PHP5 is a no-brainer and the only reason we have not done it yet is because we haven't needed to. That will now change and before December we will be PHP5 for everything.

As to why PHP4 seems more popular than PHP5, it is exactly the same reason that Microsoft cannot convince people to migrate from XP to Vista, namely:

1) The current version does everything I need
2) It takes effort to change
3) Performance improvements are not massive (like 100% better!)
4) My app.s might break; Posted by: bportlock Posted on: 07/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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