[UPHPU] PHP 4 EOL Announcement

[Dave Smith]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> I completely agree. I personally think that the slow adoption rate is 
> unacceptable. I think people are just being lazy. PHP five was 
> released in 2004 and will no longer be supported at the end of this 
> year. People need to pony and and just update their code. It's really 
> frustrating, personally.

I think lots of folks see all the work to move from PHP 4 to 5 and say, 
"Hey, if I'm going to have to re-write half of my web application to 
support PHP 5, I may as well move to another language that won't do that 
to me later." The low adoption rate could be due to the fact that 
projects are simply not adopting PHP 5 at all, but rather jumping ship 
entirely.

Just a possibility.

Having ported a 40,000 line app to PHP 5, and trying to still support 
PHP 4 at the same time, I can say it's painful. Not 
bash-your-teeth-out-with-a-rusty-iron-skillet painful, but painful. :)

--Dave