Official Goodbye to PHP4!

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Chris Corbyn
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Meh, I'm just gonna go ASP instead :wink:
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RobertGonzalez
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Screw ASP. I want ColdFusion.
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I'd quit web development altogether if I had to use ColdFusion.
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Post by AKA Panama Jack »

onion2k wrote:I'd quit web development altogether if I had to use ColdFusion.
Second :banghead:
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Post by Luke »

onion2k wrote:I'd quit web development altogether if I had to use ColdFusion.
yep
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Post by Mightywayne »

Curious - let's say I built my website in PHP 4, with the general functions; nothing really special.

Would the transition to PHP 5 be smooth? Or am I going to have to recode my site?

I'd be happy to switch to PHP 5, really.

edit: Actually, that's what google's for.
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Post by Luke »

the transition really shouldn't be all that difficult unless you are using OOP, in which case it still won't be really ALL that difficult -- depending on how you wrote your code.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

A lot of PHP5 is backwards compatible. The effect of the change should be minimal at worst.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

PHP4 -> PHP5 should cause no problems unless you have some obscure PHP4-style hacks which you should probably be refactoring anyway.

PHP5 E_STRICT compliance takes a little bit more work.
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