On Sat, August 25, 2007 9:45 am, Robert Cummings wrote: > PHP4 AND PHP5 developers don't even use OOP. Tell me what is > compelling > in PHP5 that doesn't rely on you being an OOP developer?
The XML stuff, if you need to parse XML a lot, which is not exactly a niche market, but not everybody needs it either. That said: PHP 4 end of shelf life is just that. It's software that you're simply going to see less and less of as fewer and fewer hosts/distros use it. If you analyze the situation more carefully, I think you'll find that the statistics about PHP 4 versus PHP 5 adoption are pretty skewed by large-scale webhosts that are offering PHP 5 now, but aren't pushing their clients to move to a new box with PHP 5, nor upgrading to PHP 5 on the box they are using. Will they start pushing their clients or upgrading PHP out from under them? Probably some of both. Will PHP 4 suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth in December? Or course not. Should you jump through hoops to write new code that works in both 4 and 5? Probably not, as PHP 5 is readily available to anybody. Should your old code that runs on 4 be made to run on 5? Maybe not today, or even tomorrow, but unless you want to co-lo your own box with software for which even Security updates aren't available after Aug 8, 2008 (I think that's the date), then, yeah, you probably should re-write any code that won't run on 5. Of which there probably won't be very much at all. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
