PHP 4 vs. 5? Why 2 version?

[David]

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

[Janwillem Borleffs]

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

[Petr Vileta]

"David" <dm***@sbcglobal.netwrote in
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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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[Richard Levasseur]

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.

[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

[Chung Leong]

Petr Vileta wrote:

"David" <dm***@sbcglobal.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 :-)
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.

[Loafer]

On 29 Aug 2006 12:27:11 -0700, "NC" <[e-mail]:

>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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Roger

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[Wayne]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:28:01 +0200, "Petr Vileta"
<st****@practisoft.czwrote:

>"David" <dm***@sbcglobal.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.