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I ran across this on digg today...Pretty cool.

http://gophp5.org
PHP 4 has served the web developer community for seven years now, and served it well. However, it also shows its age. Most of PHP 4's shortcomings have been addressed by PHP 5, released three years ago, but the transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5 has been slow for a number of reasons.
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I highly support this initiative. I'm polling all the projects I work with to see if they will take the pledge as well.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

Saw the announcement on the PEAR mailing list. Hopefully it keeps up the awareness that PHP4's days are numbered. Imagine the confusion that could ensue if folk leave migration to the last minute :(.
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PHP 5 is pretty much completely backwards compatible. PHP.net gives simple upgrade instructions. But still... PHP 4 lives on.
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Post by volka »

Time to emphasize the advantages of php 5 and to endorse the project.
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Post by MrPotatoes »

i'm just happy that we are moving our project to PHP5. i'm the lead guy in converting 90K lines of PHP4 code to PHP5 with OOP Practices. i'm happy that i have a guy that knows what he's talking about (project manager). he's great with databases and i'm killer with code.

i'm going to make sure to send this all over to people that don't know yet. it is definatly about time that people completely make the switch. i find it sincerly stupid to stay with PHP4 and all it's shortcomings. besides, (good) classes kickass.
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That is outstanding. I'm in.
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Post by hawleyjr »

We are now linked in their discussion area:

http://www.gophp5.org/discussion
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Post by superdezign »

:? Don't see it.

We need to like.. Make some comparison lists or something of what PHP 5 can do that PHP 4 can't.

We've got *actual* OOP.
That nifty little file_get_contents() that avoids needing cURL.
One of the DOM classes (forgot which, but I know PHP 4 has the one people alway get confused on).
Apparently, they optimized the language with Zend 2, but I'm not sure exactly where...
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I'm fully in favor of this shift, but I am skeptical of its efficacy.
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Well, they've given themselves more than half of a year to do it.
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Post by Luke »

Finally got a chance to write about it... and what an appropriate day! :)

http://www.mc2design.com/blog/go-php5
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Today, Blacknova Traders joined the GoPHP5 movement.

Took a while, but its finally official!
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