Comments on: What’s keeping you from PHP5?

By: Sinner at the Apple Core

Sinner at the Apple Core — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:19:33 +0000

My current employer, a company that runs large portal sites for large cable companies, is still running PHP4. Personally, I am very disappointed that this is the case. The main concern is that moving to PHP5 will break the code in a non-obvious way, and “They” (meaning the management) do not want to put in the time necessary to QA the whole system.

Also, the people in charge of our servers seem unwilling to compile the new version of PHP and put it on our servers. Why that is I cannot say. All I know is when asked about a new server, the stock reply is “six months, millions of dollars”. But that’s a whole OTHER story - along with some of the PHP3 code still sitting around.

Even though the end of like announcement for PHP4 has been released, I am extremely skeptical at the prospect of upgrading.

By: Handydude

Handydude — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:11:51 +0000

If any of you are looking for a host that has php5 and php4 installed, check out http://adventonegraphics.com He doesn’t advertise hosting on his site but if you click the contact button you can email him and get prices for webhosting.

By: didimo

didimo — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:17:34 +0000

I did move to PHP5.1.2 across all my dedicated servers (also upgraded to apache2 and MySQL 5.0.18)

to great results! coupled with PDO and custom Object caching class the performance is ver very fast

it saved me moving one of my largest sites from one dedicated server onto a cluster, the same server performs the job of a 2-3 servers runnign older PHP4 mysql4!!!

viva la revolution :)

By: vwiley1

vwiley1 — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:22:48 +0000

There is several hosts who provide both PHP4 and PHP5. This configuration gives you great flexibility, because you can choose which files and directories are processed by what version of PHP. This is all done by adding a line or 2 to your .htaccess.

Here are a few that do it this way:
PHP5 Web Hosting at HostRefugee
PHP5 at WebOnce

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:43:41 +0000

Nothing is stopping me, not even our sysadmin who I finally had install PHP5 for our upcoming Magnet Links website. Soon you’ll be able to try it out for yourself.

I just believe the PHP community should support Php5 more, it’s amazing the kind of things you can build with this more complete Object Oriented support in PHP5.

I recently used abstract classes to build a caching engine for our site, in the past we would’ve done a trillion hacks with function callbacks to do this kind of things, now we just implement one abstract caching method on whatever element of our pages we need to have cached.

We now rely on our try/catch, and it’s a lot easier to track and fix errors. By being forced to use encapsulation properly, our get/set methods help us eliminate chances for data corruption and inconsistencies on the state of our objects, it’s just awesome, I wish more people were using php5.

By: arenasa

arenasa — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:55:44 +0000

For me. mssql support for linux. I have IIS6 + PHP + MSSQL working fine. But if i want to deploy in linux (Which I prefer) FC4+PHP5+ ??? .. no MSSQL support yet.

By: jimdaddy

jimdaddy — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:18:54 +0000

THe last comment doesnt make much sense. The fact that your PHP applications broke with PHP 5 upgrade was because they are using depreciated commands. This is the applications fault. And Im sure all these applications have new versions out which support PHP5. I am creating a new version of a very popular open source project which is written specifically for PHP 5.1 mainly because there are so many advantages brought around in this release.

By: Kilroy

Kilroy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Nothing is stopping me. Applications I am developing in PHP only run on PHP 5. I feel that if we want everybody to make the switch, all of us have to try to help. Your software might just make others decide to upgrade to PHP 5.

By: tariquesani

tariquesani — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Hosts!! Decent affordable hosts ready to put PHP5 on their servers - it is a chicken and egg situation

By: asp_funda

asp_funda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I build my apps on Win2K/IIS5 combo & then deploy them on Linux/Apache combo. I’ve heard that PHP5 still isn’t stable on Windows. And that being said, my webhost doesn’t offer PHP5 yet. There are quite few webhosts that offer PHP5 at the moment.

And porting the code-base is indeed a problem but it can be sorted out. Its the first 2 issues that are holding me back.