Posted by shimmyshack on 03/06/07 23:08

On Mar 6, 10:52 pm, "LiquidEyes" <n...@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
>
> 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.

you are right if you need php4 use it, but be aware that some of the
knowledge you will get learning php4 will be unlearned in php5 and 6,
xampp does have 4 and 5 and a handy "switch" batch file so you can
choose between them which is nice.
I dont mean to suggest that using php4 is not "correct" but it /does/
help the community push forward if people use the most up2date
version, and any /decent/ hosting company supports php5, however there
are loads around who still don't and they should be avoided, again to
push the whole thing onwards towards better features!
have a good evening!

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