Posted by Etienne Marais on 12/07/05 12:15

Pugi! wrote:

> My webhost doesn't want to upgrade to PHP5 because of security reasons and
> some scripts that will mallfunction. I find it hard to believe. Current
> conf of webhost is PHP 4.3.11, Apache 1.3.33 and MySQL 3.23.49.
> What real reasons could there be not to upgrade ?
> How could I convince them to upgrade to PHP5 ?
> (Less important for me : but why not upgrade to Apache 2.x and at least
> MySQL 4.x ?)
>
> Enlighten me,
>
> Pugi!

Personally, I would prefer PHP 5 for new projects.
Large amounts of legacy php code is preventing me
from jumping in and upgrading our colocated server
to php 5 and a dual system (php4 as dynamic module
and php5 as cgi-bin) will have to suffice for a
slow and painfull migration path.

I would probably want to use PHP 5's new mysqli
extension, prepared statements and the like, which
requires newer MySQL versions, which entails backing
up and reinstalling databases with some modification
regarding table types.

Sadly, some old class structures will be invalid in
PHP 5 and many added features to my projects make
use of open source php classes which I used in the
development process again and again.

--
Etienne Marais
Cosmic Link
South Africa

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