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

[Adam Connor]

Thanks guys.  I guess my major confusion is to why Network Solutions is
forcing the upgrade.  Most of the webhosts I've worked with offer support
for both versions 5 and 4, in order to better support customers, and not
panic them (as is the case with my client).

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Robert Hafner <
rhafner at solunaenterprises.com> wrote:

> 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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