Posted by LiquidEyes on 03/06/07 22:52

> 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

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. :)

Thanks to both you and Steve for all your suggestions. Plenty more things to
try tomorrow! And it should be easy to install PHP5 and/or xampp to see if
they solve my problems.
Cheers.

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