PHP Server Side Scripting Forum

Upgrading from 4 to 5 is something to really consider doing whenever possible without causing too much trouble for yourself. If the upgrade is going to cause more problems than it is currently running php 4 then maybe an upgrade would be better to get in the future. One way or another upgrading php will probably be inevitable for most.

>> Also from my experience not a great deal has changed between php4 and php5

Yes and no. If you plan on doing any object-oriented projects or working with XML, php 5 offers much more than 4 does. This might be an incentive in itself to upgrade to php 5.

I think this line of thinking is one of the reasons php4/5 have co-existed for so long. So long as php4 was still in active development there was no real incentive for a developer to migrate old code. If people haven't looked at PHP5 I think now is definitely the time to consider it, before it's too late.

I do agree making all the scripts PHP5 compatible is the best solution, but will have to rewrite and rehack applications to make customs sessions work properly, just because of object oriented stracture has been redefined.

Thus destructors can use sessions but session handler can't use objects. In prior versions, they were called in the opposite order.

When I sarted scripting PHP4 3 years ago the PHP project did not stress that one should do PHP5 which I find a bit iresposible for the consortium.

The custom Zend sessions I installed where written in PHP4.

Granted at the end of the day resposibility is my to follow the appropriate development path.

I tried to look for a rewritten Zend custom sessions for PHP5 but could not find one. Asked Zend for support got none.

I looked at object oriented classes, even coded an original routine for php.net, yes I can figure out how to rewrite the Zend custom sessions to make it PHP5 workable.

But will require time, as well as will have to rehack phpBB as well.

I am a coder by heart, and been coding on and off since 1985 in FORTRAN.

But because of the new age economy I am forced to wear many hats at the same time.

I have to be an SEO, Webmaster, developer, business consultant to my company, and many other things, which are not pertinent to this discussion.

In the business world it is all about prioratizing, it is reality not pure coding practisses in a vacuum.

In Cuba they still drive 1950s chevrolets and cadilacs.
If you need to make things work you do, that is why we call it "Hacking!"

I am going to try to get the coding for my projects outsourced to have it done properly, but will need to find budgets for each project.

So, will have one foot in PHP4 and one in PHP5 as things evolve.

I think I am defining yet another job title here for myself, project planer..:)

Okay, now back to chicken and the egg story.

Under Cpanel are all the GNU software scripts PHP5 compatible? It will be a nightmare for hosting companies, if after the migration customer are not able to run WorPress, phpBB, Agora, Drupal, etc instalations!

I'm sorry I've read over this several times and i'm not sure what you are getting at? I've got a custom session wrapper wrote and working in php5 that uses objects without a problem. Also I wasn't aware that php4 had destructor support.