Re: [PHP] Re: php 4 to 5

[Travis Conway]

Well,  I look at other people's code sice I am new to the whole language.  I 
have only been working with it for about a month and half now.  I do have 
prior experience with languages such as ASP (both JScript and VBscript 
based).  I am probably not going to upgrade now since my stuff "just works". 
I was just wondering what would be the main advantage.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Beaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Travis Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "PHP-GEMERAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: [PHP] Re: php 4 to 5


Travis Conway wrote:
I do not know much about the history of php and do not know why there is 
active development on both the 4 and 5 major versions, but is there a 
definite reason for me to migrate from 4 to 5 on my servers?
Depends on what you wish to do with php.
PHP 5 has far better support for xml and soap than php 4.  It has a 
stricter object model and supports native exceptions for error handling. 
Iterators, reflection, and __call()/__get()/__set() provide incredibly 
flexibility.  It is new, and so not nearly as stable as PHP 4.  Any 
solutions would need to be custom-written for PHP 5 at this point, 
although options are beginning to appear.

PHP 4 has a big history and is very stable.  There are shortcomings that 
are addressed in PHP 5, but there is a huge codebase.

So, the question is, do you rely on other people's code, or your own? If 
you rely on other people's code, I would wait a year or two to upgrade. 
Otherwise, what are you waiting for?

:)
Greg
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