Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 20:49 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"PHP 4, deployed on tens of millions of servers globally, is among the most successful languages of all time. But its run is coming to an end. Active development for the scripting language has been discontinued and security updates will conclude in August. And for some developers, PHP 4 will be history before Valentine's Day. On February 5, a group of influential Open Source projects will collectively stop all new development on their respectively platforms using PHP 4. However, there are still some holdouts opposing a complete transition to PHP 5 and it's not entirely clear whether or not PHP 4 will ever truly disappear."
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2005-07-06
Running both versions is imho unwanted. This makes people lazy for taking steps to migrate. It's known for more then one year that php4 will be ended this year.
We migrated all our customers to PHP 5 last year. And we gave customers one year time to migrate there scripts. And btw of the 15.000 customers of us only 50 people had problems with PHP 5. Mostly because they were using this *EXPERIMENTAL* dom-xml stuff.