Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/20/07 03:06

John Murtari wrote:
> Herb <herb_k@mail.com> writes:
>
>> Why do so many hosting services only offer PHP4? That's even true for
>> Yahoo.
>>
> Being at a hosting provider I can give you the exact
> reasons. There are two huge ones:
> 1) Backward compatability.
> 2) Ability to run PHP 4 & PHP 5 at the same time.

I use APLus.net - and the offer both. From the control panel, switching
between the two is done with the click of a radio button.

I've been toggling back and forth like a madman to see how my stuff hold
up - and haven't noticed any problems.

>
> When php 5 came out it appears the developers did NOT put
> a priority on being able to run both as modules at the same time.
> There are some 'rube goldberg' setups where you can use proxies
> or setup as a cgi -- but nothing transparent to the thousands of
> web sites already in existence using php 4 just fine.
>
> We would love to use php 5 -- but we can't break sites
> on the old stuff with people who don't know how to maintain their
> code and their is no 'easy' transition path.

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