Best PHP5 Web Hosting?

[Doug]

I am looking for PHP5 web hosting and many companies have not moved up
to using PHP5 yet. Is there any one who has had any experiences good or
bad with any company using PHP5?

-d

[Tony Marston]

I don't think that PHP 5 is really ready for a production environment due to
outstanding issues. Al lot have been fixed in 5.0.2 but personally I would
wait for 5.0.3 or even 5.1.0

I have two development machines, one running PHP 4 and the other PHP 5, and
I have arranged that my code can run on either, so I do have some experience
of the matter.

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Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

"Doug" <do*****@XXXXremovetheXearthlink.net> wrote in message
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I am looking for PHP5 web hosting and many companies have not moved up to
using PHP5 yet. Is there any one who has had any experiences good or bad
with any company using PHP5?

-d

[Berislav Lopac]

Tony Marston wrote:

I don't think that PHP 5 is really ready for a production environment
due to outstanding issues. Al lot have been fixed in 5.0.2 but
personally I would wait for 5.0.3 or even 5.1.0

I have two development machines, one running PHP 4 and the other PHP
5, and I have arranged that my code can run on either, so I do have
some experience of the matter.

And what was exactly the experience which led you to that conclusion? I'm
gradually switching to PHP5, and would like to know what are its biggest
problems in production-level environments.

Berislav

[Doug]

I would like to know also. I know it has bugs, but what would be the
deal breaker? Is there anything in PHP5 that is that bad?

The object oriented features make programming some things much easier,
and there's no way I am going back to PHP4.

-d

Berislav Lopac wrote:

And what was exactly the experience which led you to that conclusion? I'm
gradually switching to PHP5, and would like to know what are its biggest
problems in production-level environments.

Berislav

[Tony Marston]

The first bug that I found was http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29588 which
means that if a custom error handler is called from within an object the
$errcontext argument should contain details of the current object, as it
does with PHP 4. I have a workaround, but it is not elegant.

I also found bug http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29681 which causes Apache to
crash when testing 5.1.0. Until this is fixed I cannot use it.

According to the PHP 5 bug statistics page at
http://bugs.php.net/bugstats.php?phpver=5 there are over 350 outstanding
bugs (compared with 669 for PHP 4), but if your code does not hit any of
these problems then I guess you would be OK.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

"Berislav Lopac" <be************@lopsica.com> wrote in message
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Tony Marston wrote:

I don't think that PHP 5 is really ready for a production environment
due to outstanding issues. Al lot have been fixed in 5.0.2 but
personally I would wait for 5.0.3 or even 5.1.0

I have two development machines, one running PHP 4 and the other PHP
5, and I have arranged that my code can run on either, so I do have
some experience of the matter.

And what was exactly the experience which led you to that conclusion? I'm
gradually switching to PHP5, and would like to know what are its biggest
problems in production-level environments.

Berislav

[Doug]

If any one wants to know, I am using a2webhosting now. seems pretty
good. I had a few problems, but they were all solved so far.

-d

Doug wrote:

I am looking for PHP5 web hosting and many companies have not moved up
to using PHP5 yet. Is there any one who has had any experiences good or
bad with any company using PHP5?

-d