Hi
A quick question. I am using php5 on my local machine when I transfered my work to my host, they told me that php5 is not supported as of yet (only php 4) and they told me that php5 is not a stable platform as of yet. Is this true?
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Antek
IS PHP 5 Stable?
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malcolmboston
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it is perfectly stable, just has'nt been rolled out world-wide yet, im guessing thats because not all existing code is compatable with PHP5 and therefore web hosts are holding out until it becomes the norm
as far as im aware, PHP4 is still much more widely used than PHP5 and tbh i havent even looked at PHP5 as of yet
as far as im aware, PHP4 is still much more widely used than PHP5 and tbh i havent even looked at PHP5 as of yet
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PHP5 is fantastic. Specifically for OOP. I would hate to have to go back to writing OOP in PHP4.
I can't say I've had any issues with stability of PHP5 itself. The only issues I've had have been getting PHP4 apps with obselete code or new functions specs to work.... that's got nothing at all to do with the stability of PHP5 though
I can't say I've had any issues with stability of PHP5 itself. The only issues I've had have been getting PHP4 apps with obselete code or new functions specs to work.... that's got nothing at all to do with the stability of PHP5 though
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Personally I've never used PHP5 as of yet, when it becomes more mainstream I will switch to it, and everyone else probably will.
Aslong as older PHP scripts don't use functions which have been removed/changed in PHP5 then the old scripts will work fine.
I'm sure there will be a change log on http://www.php.net now, if not very soon.
edit: i just found it for you: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
Aslong as older PHP scripts don't use functions which have been removed/changed in PHP5 then the old scripts will work fine.
I'm sure there will be a change log on http://www.php.net now, if not very soon.
edit: i just found it for you: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
I haven't had any serious issues with switching from php4 to php5. (except for domxml-> xml and xslt -> xsl)
The problem that i'm experiencing now that there is a wide diversity of installed php versions out there and every time you have to make sure that all functions are available, extensions loaded, apache permissions (for mod_rewrite, .. )
The problem that i'm experiencing now that there is a wide diversity of installed php versions out there and every time you have to make sure that all functions are available, extensions loaded, apache permissions (for mod_rewrite, .. )