[UPHPU] PHP 4 EOL Announcement

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 18 Jul 2007, at 09:14, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

>> *shrugs* Most of what I code nowadays is PHP5, but I don't see how  
>> it matters one way or the other.  Am I missing something?  Does it  
>> hurt the community to have my code running a generation behind?
>
> I think it does, yes. If no one is updating their code and  
> progressing forward then the hosts don't update the versions they  
> install on their servers… and if the servers don't have the new  
> version then people are not motivated to write using the new  
> features… and the cycle hinders progress.
>

At my hosting company all my new servers run PHP5 and I suggest  
moving that way to all my customers.

I think that if we take a hint from Apple and make our new  
applications fully PHP 5 compatible and forget about PHP 4 then  
people who use those applications will in turn push the hosting  
companies to get PHP 5 on the servers.  That is, of course, a  
simplistic way of looking at it, but at the same time, the laws of  
supply and demand work here.  Make good and attractive applications  
using cutting edge technology and consumers will push the service  
industry into supporting their demands.

Jonathan