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PHP 4 vs. 5? Why 2 version?

OK. I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated by
the PHP team? Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to
5?

Confused
Aug 28 '06 #1
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David wrote:
OK. I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated by
the PHP team? Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to
5?
It's quite common that previous software versions are maintained for a while
after releasing new versions.

PHP 4 will probably be maintained for quite a while, because it's still the
most applied version on the web.
JW
Aug 28 '06 #2
"David" <dm***@sbcgloba l.netwrote in
news:hv******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...
OK. I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated by
the PHP team? Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to
5?
I'm still using PHP4 on my server because PHP5 still have too many bugs for
me :-)
And I'm not alone I assume...

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Aug 28 '06 #3

Petr Vileta wrote:
I'm still using PHP4 on my server because PHP5 still have too many bugs for
me :-)
And I'm not alone I assume...

Which bugs are these? I've been running 5 for a year now and haven't
run into any problems with PHP.

Aug 29 '06 #4
NC
David wrote:
>
I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated
by the PHP team?
Read the change logs:

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to 5?
They may want whatever they please, but there will be plenty of users
that will stick to PHP 4 for the time being. There's a lot of code out
there written in PHP 4, and plenty of people will rather stay with PHP
4 than risk their applications to stop working correctly with PHP 5.

Cheers,
NC

Aug 29 '06 #5
Petr Vileta wrote:
"David" <dm***@sbcgloba l.netwrote in
news:hv******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...
OK. I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated by
the PHP team? Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to
5?
I'm still using PHP4 on my server because PHP5 still have too many bugs for
me :-)
And I'm not alone I assume...
Until a few months ago www.php.net was running on PHP4. It was sort of
funny. See
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_rep...://www.php.net

www.phpbuilder.com, www.phpfreaks.com, and www.phparch.com are still on
PHP 4.

Aug 29 '06 #6
On 29 Aug 2006 12:27:11 -0700, "NC" <nc@iname.comwr ote:
>David wrote:
>>
I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated
by the PHP team?

Read the change logs:

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
>Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to 5?

They may want whatever they please, but there will be plenty of users
that will stick to PHP 4 for the time being. There's a lot of code out
there written in PHP 4, and plenty of people will rather stay with PHP
4 than risk their applications to stop working correctly with PHP 5.

Cheers,
NC
There also seem to be a *lot* of tutorials out there, and example
code, that need a lot of tweaking to run on PHP5. That was my
intro to PHP, because I didn't know the difference and installed
PHP5 because I figured it would be backward compatible. It was
frustrating, but kind of fun, too. Now I wouldn't care to go back
to PHP4.
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Aug 30 '06 #7
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:28:01 +0200, "Petr Vileta"
<st****@practis oft.czwrote:
>"David" <dm***@sbcgloba l.netwrote in
news:hv******* *************** **********@4ax. com...
>OK. I am confused, why is there a 4 and 5 version being updated by
the PHP team? Are they updating bugs in 4 and want everyone to go to
5?
I'm still using PHP4 on my server because PHP5 still have too many bugs for
me :-)
PHP5 is probably more stable than PHP4, now.
>And I'm not alone I assume...
I run a few servers on PHP4 simply because that software doesn't
support PHP5 and it's not worth my trouble to port it. That's
basically the only reason anyone should be using PHP4.

Aug 30 '06 #8

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