Get your subscription here. Log in or Sign up. Suggested articles. Good morning, Do you have a kind of uninstall? Right now the shell defaults to 4. I had to install this: apt-get install libjpeg8-dev apt-get install libpngdev apt-get install freetype2 apt-get install libfreetype6-dev apt-get install libmcrypt-dev apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev apt-get install libexpat-dev then my configure command was:.
I use - 32bit debian 7 3. Thank you for this guideline. It makes it useless. Applications can opt into using Zstandard by specifying zstd in the compressors URI option, which is used to negotiate supported compression formats when connecting to MongoDB. This release adds several authentication improvements.
This version contains mainly improvements to the Container::call feature, and contains no BC-break. PHP 5. As explained 9 months ago when I introduced the new definition format for PHP-DI 4, that format has been thought for the future. This version contains features that have all been implemented by contributors other than me, this is very encouraging : This is also the quickest release, since 4.
This version was focused on stability and documentation improvements, with full backward compatibility. Thank God Score: 4 , Insightful. I hope that everyone has moved beyond PHP 4. X by this point. X is more secure and capable. Share twitter facebook. Re:Thank God Score: 5 , Informative. You'd be surprised how many shared web-hosts are still out there running ancient and unpatched PHP versions.
Partly out of laziness and partly out of an unwillingness to make their customers work on their equally ancient applications. Parent Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 2 , Informative. I am the owner of a shared hosting provider, and partially I need to rebuke your statement. Not to mention, those of us who use cPanel need to wait for them to get the entire system stable before we can upgrade.
This combines well for us though - we announced that PHP4 s. Although if you're running -dev on a live server Re: Score: 2. Congratulations on providing competent hosting then! I myself switched to a different one for exactly this reason and would never consider a host that doesn't have PHP5. You would think. I work for a company that hosts several major, big name websites; millions of hits a day.
There has been a massive resistance to move from PHP4 to PHP5 for several reasons, one of them being that nobody in management wants to spend the time necessary to test ALL of the code under PHP5 and those in charge of the servers don't want to spend the time upgrading the machines.
It would not surprise me if we were still on PHP4 a year from now. After all, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Someone forgot to tell Redhat. They only make PHP5 available for Release 5, which is very much in the minority of their installation base.
Unfortunately, he refuses to support older versions of Mac OS, and for various reasons I'm still working with Panther on my laptop and some of our servers, so I have been struggling mightily to get PHP5 to compile and install.
I wish Apple would provide some support for these 'freebies' they include with the OS, but their attitude seems to be "if we didn't invent it, it's not our probl. While I can completely understand the need for this to occur, I can see this causing alot of problems for many small businesses, personal webpages, and hosting companies. PHP5 is definitly worthwhile switching to from PHP4, but there are so many poorly coded sites out there that wont run properly under PHP5, and this at some point is going to cause a nightmare for various hosting companies.
Your typical small business or personal webpage will frequently use PHP, and have little knowledge of how to fix their code to get it working, or how to upgrade their 3rd party software to a PHP5 Compatible version.
At the same time hosting companies who will reach a point where they need to upgrade to PHP5 in order to keep their systems as secure as possible because PHP4 security fixs might not be coming out will be faced with many angry customers who are unwilling to spend time or money to change a site that they see as working previously. I can completely understand why a company might need to stop supporting an old version of their product at some point when newer ones are freely available, I just am not looking forward to all the headaches its going to cause.
I can hear the phones of angry customers threatening to kill me because i "broke their site" now. Translation Score: 3 , Informative. I'm sure some people won't like it. Most businesses don't like spending money, even if they know it's for their own benefit in the long-term.
If they've got code that they have no means of supporting that's bad management, I mean how can a business rely on something that they have no means of updating or fixing if it goes wrong? If a small business owner got an employee who knew a bit about electrical wiring to come in and wire their physical place of business, and then a few years later a safety regulator c.
Either way those commisioning the site will not have the skill to judge if the r. We had some guy from a local college in my last job do that. Re: Score: 1. The basic problem here is that support for PHP4 is ending. So sandbox all your customers who won't do the work to upgrade to php5 off on discrete servers or use virtualization to accomplish the same thing.
Make sure your customers understand or at the very least are given information regarding the fact that their security is affected by php4 no longer being maintained, and let them make the decision. Do your due diligence as far as security is concerned code audits if you're able but, ultimately, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't keep him from ge.
Couldn't hosting sites offer both versions? In theory, the customer could set a switch somewhere to select between them. Or, put a flag file in the folder s where the scripts are to indicate which interpreter to use. What about CentOS? Score: 2. I have a large ahem Supposedly, CentOS will be updated until But how could they keep this promise if the underlying packages are no longer supported?
Guess I'll have to see what PHP5 will do to my software, thinking I could put this off for another couple years. Still installing CentOs 4 Score: 2. I know lots of places still installing CentOS 4. Is php that full of holes that they can't continue to support it?
Same issue here. The Cent folks try very hard to make sure that updates don't break your stuff and they are very good at that. One of the main reason I use it. Seems strange to me Score: 2 , Insightful. Because PHP 5 isn't just a few new libraries, constructs and bug fixes - it's a different object model, and as the other reply said, some misfeatures are deprecated for security reasons.
Re:Seems strange to me Score: 5 , Informative. PHP began as a hacky side project of a lone developer Rasmus Lerdorf. I'm not wholly aware of the details, but my understanding is that Rasmus was a Perl coder and wanted to generate minorly dynamic web pages by putting Perl-like code inside of his HTML. As the capabilities of his technology grew, he released it as an open source project, and due to its extreme ease of use it quickly turned into a popular web development language.
In the first few releases, there wasn't serious thought put into making a proper software development language. But as web pages became more complex, soft typing, lack of proper scope, and lack of OOP patterns made developing complex PHP applications a world of horror.
In addition, concepts like putting all query parameters into the scope of the program, which made developing simple applications easy, created a difficult situation for those trying to make complex applications secure. So to remove these security problems, and to remain relevant by providing richer programming constructs like classes, PHP had to break backwards compatibility. And while Java is mostly backwards compatible, the technologies for developing Java on the web have changed dramatically.
Today this is highly frowned upon though backward compatible. If you're running a Java app server, you'll definitely run into problems when upgrading WebSphere, WebLogic or Tomcat , due to updated tag libraries and other JARs being incompatible with their previous versions. NET is wholely incompatible with VB6. Microsoft has announced a dropping of support for VB6.
However, half of VB developers still program in VB6. Many VB programmers don't understand VB. NET's features, and hence are quite reluctant to move to VB.
NET and they're probably angry, too. And most existing VB6 code would nearly require a complete rewrite to get running in VB. What might just happen is that Microsoft and PHP will have to continue supporting their legacy versions or simply lose beginning programmers as customers.
Microsoft will probably continue to end-of-life VB6, but I believe they will release a language highly similar to VB6 that's easier to move over to. It will be interesting to see whether PHP follows a similar path or just leaves its developers to either learn PHP5 or move to another webby language, like Python.
Thanks for your insightful reply!
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