Go PHP 5

[Eric]

I, as well as many open source developers, have joined the Go PHP 5 initiative. Starting February 5th, 2008 - we will be dropping support for PHP version 4, and will be using PHP 5 instead. My Domain Name Portfolio project is one of many going in this direction.

Making this post here, to encourage any of you that have open source projects, to join this initiative.

You can find the official press release here (posted on my blog - cause the original is a PDF which a lot may not be able to view).



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[jdk]

I would have to say we finally made the plunge almost a month ago regarding PHP 5 on our newer machines. We we phase our older machines out none of our new ones will have anything less than PHP 5. It is hard to believe it has been out almost 3 years with PHP 6 on the far horizon.

As a programmer I have not experienced any issues with my scripts from going from 4 to 5. We keep register_globals off. We did experience one issues from going to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4, regarding the precision limited to 65 digits instead of 256 like MySQL 4. This is no problems as PHP 5 limits its precision to 15 by default. We have been thinking about raising it to 65 too as a request from several of our clients, but have not researched if it will cause any problems with the server.