[Hidden-tech] Network Solutions forcing users to upgrade to PHP5

Robert Hafner rhafner at solunaenterprises.com
Mon Apr 14 18:24:34 EDT 2008


Adam,

PHP4 has been EOL'd- its at its end of life. This means that there are  
no more updates coming out for it, although they will look at security  
problems and judge them on severity when deciding to patch them, but  
only until September. After September even security issues will be  
ignored. The primary reason for this is that PHP5 has been out since  
2003 and supporting two versions of the language is burdensome.

This has been announced for well over a year, so its surprising the  
NetSol hasn't mentioned this previously. There are some webhosts out  
there (myself included) that offer setups which run both php4 and php5  
simultaneously in order to help with migration. For the most part it  
is not too difficult of an upgrade, and PHP5 is a much more robust  
language. To be honest, as a PHP developer I've been programming  
almost exclusively with PHP5 because of all the advantages it offers.  
PHP4 was seriously lacking in a lot of ways, in speed, security, and  
scalability, and PHP5 was designed to fix that problem.

Robert


On Apr 14, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Adam Connor wrote:

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> I just received an email from a client saying the her hosting  
> provider, Network Solutions, is forcing her to upgrade her site from  
> PHP4 to PHP5. Unfortunately, her site doesn't work in PHP5 and would  
> need a fair amount of work to update in order to get it to do so.
>
> I know the reputation Network Solutions has(I don't personally like  
> or use them myself), and I'm not looking to start a thread on why  
> they're bad.  What I'd like to know is:
> 1.) Does anyone know more about why they're forcing this upgrade?
> 2.) Does anyone have any advice for her on how to approach modifying  
> her code (i.e. what the major differences between PHP 4 and 5 are)?
>
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