On Monday 23 July 2007, Giovanni Battista Lenoci wrote: > Stephan Beal ha scritto: > > Unfortunately, the author of autocomplete fails to document which PHP > > version it needs. > > I'm not a guru of jquery, and I don't know the autocomplete plugin, but > I'm sure that a js file work on the client and not on the server. > > If the php part of the script use a php5 feature you can modify the > script to make it work on php4. > > > The "solution", i'm afraid, is to upgrade. For more information, see: > > > > http://gophp5.org/ > > > > In short: any PHP version under 5.2 won't be supported much longer by > > many leading PHP applications/frameworks. > > This is not the truth, this site suggest to make the transition to php5 > as soon as possible cause php4 development is reaching the end, only > security bug will be ported to the 4.4 family. > > Bye :)
That is not the truth. :-) The GoPHP5 effort is to push for dropping PHP 4 support and focusing on PHP 5.2. Participating projects are expected to not support any version of PHP below 5.2 as of their next release after February. The PHP development team did not actually start discussing dropping support for PHP 4 until *after* GoPHP5 launched. (Actually the day after.) Whether or not there is a causal relationship there I'm not certain, but I doubt it was entirely coincidental. At this point, if you're doing anything new then PHP 4 does not exist, and PHP 5.1 and earlier only exists if you're stuck on a dedicated RHEL box and the sysadmin refuses to upgrade you. For everything else, it's 5.2. Disclaimer: I co-founded the GoPHP5 project. :-) That said, I know it's possible to do Ajax auto-complete stuff in PHP 4, because Drupal's been doing it for over a year. (The PHP 5.0.x series was notably buggy, and generally not recommended by anyone anymore.) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
