[NTLUG:Discuss] Step away from the php <5

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Tue Jan 8 22:44:12 CST 2008


Brian Koontz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:59:08PM -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> As one who knows the barest minimum about PHP, could you add a little 
>> context?  Is there no PHP version 5+?  Is it junk?  Is it so different 
>> that there's no easy upgrade?
> 
> Not junk, but different.  Some features in PHP4 have been deprecated
> in PHP5, so there's no guarantees that what once ran in 4 will run in
> 5.  Sort of like Python :)

Oh.... PHP is much worse than that.  PHP changes the behavior of
its functions even within minor releases.  Can be very frustrating.



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