Want to upgrade to Php 5

[kev woodman]

Are there any plans to upgrade to PHP 5 from 4.4.2?

[Pumazooma]

That's going to potentially mess up a lot of phpBB forums. It's a little flakey with 5.

[kev woodman]

Ditch 'em - who needs forums anyway lol

[Administrator]

both php5 and php 4.4.2 are working on one of our server. If you need php 5 then get in touch with our support staff and we will move your account to the server which has php 5.

[kev woodman]

Once again I'm really impressed with the service. Many thanks for your response. I'm going to have a development project which will be using PHP 5 so I'll follow your advice.

Again, thank you.

[smudgeit]

It is advisable to upgrade to php4 . re: this message on php.net

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by smudgeit

It is advisable to upgrade to php4

not sure if this is some sort of intelligent spambot or real person. If you are real then can you check original post from Kevin ?

[smudgeit]

spam bot?? Just advising that php 4 is being discontinued

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by smudgeit

spam bot?? Just advising that php 4 is being discontinued

Kevin wants to upgrade from php4 to php5. You said "It is advisable to upgrade to php4"

What should we consider when you post wrong information in your first post ?

[kev woodman]

Just a slip of the finger I'm sure Admin

Interesting to hear that development of PHP4 is stopping.

[Dan]

Yes but the files will always be available. I will never stop using PHP4 until i can re-write the whole of my system to be compaitable with it.

[kev woodman]

What part of your system would not be compatible with PHP5?

It may be time to think about changing those parts because although PHP4 will be available bugs and security problems are not going to be fixed for much longer. The effects on any codebase of changing from 4 to 5 shouldn't be massive so have you tried running your code on the newer version. If you were writing new stuff then there are lots of changes you can make because of 5s greater support for OOP but for existing code transition should be pretty painless.

[jon123]

I changed to php5 and glad i did, fairly painless although I did some updating when I turned register_globals off.

I had a problem with a bug regarding date issues though. Extracting dates (timestamp) out of the database worked ok until it hit a row where there wasn't one, it them proceeded to through a wobbly.
I had to write conditions to combat the errors

[kev woodman]

Was that being caused by PHP5 or was it being hidden by PHP4?

[jon123]

Good q Kev, I don't know! I think it went down as a bug but I can't find any reference now as i don't know the error mesage.
If you want, I can remove the condition on one of my sites and let you know!