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PHP 5: is my site going to explode?

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:06 pm
by returnButton
great.. a new version of PHP. i'm just in the process of creating my first PHP site for a friend, and getting my head round the PHP 4 framework. It's going ok. But in my time building the site i've sought help from the PHP manual, posts here and general help on the internet, and everywhere i see reference to things that have changed in PHP 4 and will no longer work in 3. The site is going to be ready for launch soon, and my fear is, what if my host decides to upgrade to 5 and everything breaks!!? I'll have multiple templates to sift through and change, and an unhappy buddy with a brand-spanking new, broken, site.
Did anyone have probs with the 3-4 transition?

oh, and this is my first post, so, Hello.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 4:35 am
by m3mn0n
Hi, welcome to the forums! 8)

PHP3 to PHP4 wasn't too bad (for me anyway). None of my apps broke but some of them did have minor php.ini issues, Superglobals, plus script security, etc. But they where fixed/updated in no time flat!

PHP4 to PHP5 i don't think will be that bad. The majority of the changes that i've been hearing will happen won't really affect the average PHPer, mainy just the advanced programmers who need cutting edge capabilities in PHP (i could be wrong....heh).

Plus don't forget PHP5 is just in beta1 release, it won't be finalized for a while, early next year is what i've heard. Who knows what else might develop! =)

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 11:47 am
by JPlush76
the PHP team strictly says "DO NOT USE THIS BETA LAUNCH FOR LIVE APPLICATIONS"

apparently there are alot of bugs they know about and are working to fix. I definately wouldn't migrate to PHP5 until its an official release unless you just wanna play around with the new features.

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:59 pm
by Fredix
I just searched for a PHP5 topic and found one :-)

Well I read through the "changes site" (http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php) and I noticed that almost all changes will affect or rather extend PHP's class function. Which means that PHP4 scripts should continue to run perfectly and only few coders will notice a change from 4 to 5. I don't use classes too often maybe because I don't really know about the possibilities.

Actually I would care more about the PHP extension libraries like MING or whatever that make PHP a very useful tool.

good night,
Fredix

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:18 pm
by phice
I only use stable/final releases.