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IS PHP 5 Stable?
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:26 am
by Antek_Ryu
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?
Regards
Antek
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:29 am
by malcolmboston
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
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:50 am
by Jenk
It is stable, else it would not be released.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:19 am
by Chris Corbyn
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

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:29 am
by ddragas
Do files written in PHP 4.3.11 work in PHP 5
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:32 am
by jayshields
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
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:42 am
by timvw
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, .. )