Posted by Ben on 09/14/05 04:39

Manuel Lemos wrote:

> I guess this should ring a lot of bells for those that expect to develop
> products targetted to PHP 5, because the numbers seem to show that PHP 5
> is a flop, despite PHP 5.0.0 was released more than 1 year ago.

I think it points more to hosting providers who don't want to force
their clients to ensure their sites are php5 compatible. I'm sure if a
client were to ask they would host them on a machine with php5, but if
they are already on one with php4 they won't rock your boat. Hosting
providers, which account for the vast majority of hosted domains, are
pretty conservative.

Personally, SimpleXML was all I needed to switch after a particularly
frustrating bought with php4 and xml parsing.

- Ben

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