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Posted by Rik on 03/06/07 23:11
LiquidEyes <news@liquideyes.net> wrote:
>> Yeah PHP4 - it might be the newest v4, but PHP6 is just round the
>> corner, supporting unicode etc... that will make even PHP5 obselete!
>
> I do appreciate the advice.
>
> For some reason I thought PHP4 was kinda like Apache v1.3. I.e. old, but
> stable and still maintained. I guess not. :D
Actually, it is for the most part. No problems with cURL in 4.4.2 here.
Latest release was 4.4.6, of 01-03-2007. You're not going to tell me
that's to old are you?
> Also I noticed a few web hosts still only seem to support PHP4 (I guess
> this
> will may them relics in your book!) so, since I'm not using any of the
> special features of PHP5 (yet) I thought it would be silly to narrow
> down my
> hosting options unnecessarily. I didn't want to write something and later
> find out it wasn't backwards compatible. But I do take your point. :)
Actually my experience with hosters in the Netherlands is that most of
them still use PHP4 by default.
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