Posted by Manuel Lemos on 09/14/05 01:58

Hello,

on 09/13/2005 07:52 PM Ryan A said the following:
> I'm a bit curious, so far I have had no need to upgrade my skills or use the
> slightly different format /
> functions of PHP 5.x.....infact I have not seen all that many hosts actually
> having support for it, so I
> thought of this little poll :-)

I think this survey already answers your doubts:

http://www.nexen.net/interview/index.php?id=49


It shows there only 3.5% of the polled servers are exposing the use of
PHP 5, against the use of PHP 4 in 95% of the servers.

Personally I keep using PHP 4 and do not see the motivation to upgrade.
First because, for me, PHP 4 is already a feature complete language for
Web development. Second, because I do not have the time nor the patience
to chase all the backward incompatibilities of PHP 5 that will break the
code of my sites.

Actually I am even scared to try PHP 5 in sites that I have with large
code bases because it is very hard to fully test them in development
environment.

It is not impossible to test a large site in development environment to
find the possible problems, but it would take a lot of time and still
many details could escape, so I am not interested to risk and put a site
up malfunctioning due to PHP 5 incompatibilities, especially when PHP 4
worked so well for all these years.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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