Is there something wrong with PHP5?

[David]

I have been looking at web hosting and I notice that most are still
running PHP 4.x. Is there some reason for not upgrading to 5?

Just curious

Thanks

[Dikkie Dik]

I have been looking at web hosting and I notice that most are still

running PHP 4.x. Is there some reason for not upgrading to 5?

My provider has PHP5 support (next to PHP4 support) for over a year now
and there is nothing wrong with it. Maybe other providers are afraid to
break compatibility?

Best regards

[NC]

David wrote:

>
I have been looking at web hosting and I notice
that most are still running PHP 4.x. Is there
some reason for not upgrading to 5?

Yes. It takes time. Why fix what isn't brokern?

Cheers,
NC

[MD]

"NC" <[e-mail] in message
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David wrote:

I have been looking at web hosting and I notice
that most are still running PHP 4.x. Is there
some reason for not upgrading to 5?

Yes. It takes time. Why fix what isn't brokern?

Cheers,
NC

I am also waiting for my isp to upgrade to PHP5.
It has a great support for XML.

MD

[Chung Leong]

David wrote:

I have been looking at web hosting and I notice that most are still
running PHP 4.x. Is there some reason for not upgrading to 5?

Just curious

Thanks

The lack of backward compatibility is a big reason.

[Dikkie Dik]

The lack of backward compatibility is a big reason.

I have heard that one before. But I never experienced any PHP4 code that
would not run in PHP5. What compatibility problems are there?

[IchBin]

Dikkie Dik wrote:

>The lack of backward compatibility is a big reason.

I have heard that one before. But I never experienced any PHP4 code that
would not run in PHP5. What compatibility problems are there?

I thought that php 4 was upward compatible with php 5? Most software I
have known are compatible that way.

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[Chung Leong]

Dikkie Dik wrote:

The lack of backward compatibility is a big reason.

I have heard that one before. But I never experienced any PHP4 code that
would not run in PHP5. What compatibility problems are there?

Obvious problems like parse errors if "clone" is used as a method name.

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** David escribió/wrote (Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:14:28 -0500):

I have been looking at web hosting and I notice that most are still
running PHP 4.x. Is there some reason for not upgrading to 5?

Servers do not upgrade themselves. It takes a lot of work, esp. under
Unix/Linux where you often need to either upgrade the whole OS or break the
distro packaging system.
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