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26 days left until end of life for PHP 4

Boris Written on 9th January 2008                                                                                                              10 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

PHP with attitude…Don’t worry. If you server runs PHP 4 it won’t stop working on February. But don’t expect any upgrades or support after this date from the official PHP community. It is time to upgrade to PHP 5 and to make sure you (or your webhost or server admin) do so the community is not looking back and now focusing fully on PHP 5.

So if you want to impress your local geek, nerd or sysop simply walk over and casually say: “I assume we are running PHP 5 now?”.

For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, check this migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

Check the official countdown clock here:
http://www.gophp5.org/

The illustration shows a slightly upset and clearly tired PHP4 on the right (blonde) and fresh, smiling and ready to go PHP5 (brunette) right behind her on the left. Right?

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About the author: Serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. Current activities include TwitterCounter.com & this Blog. Boris is also very active on Twitter: @Boris

10 comments/trackbacks to “26 days left until end of life for PHP 4”

  1. Jun 24, 2008: Anonymous

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  2. By LennieZ on Jan 9, 2008

    I prefer the blonde one!

    No serious, I think every self-respected sysop is already for a long time into PHP 5. Don’t forget PHP6 is also coming up :)
    http://www.dotvoid.com/view.php?id=57

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  3. By Bas van den Beld on Jan 9, 2008

    Did you guys update to PHP5 already? My Wordpress configuration has trouble with it on some plugins.

    Let’s wait and see how many sites will have trouble updating…

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  4. By Kerim Satirli on Jan 9, 2008

    Don’t forget that critical security releases for the 4.4.x branch will still be available until 2008-08-08.

    That said, I have been running PHP 5.x for at least 2 years now and haven’t had any problems at all with Wordpress plugins, or any other critical software for that matter

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  5. By Chris Obdam on Jan 9, 2008

    PHP, never heard of… :-) Come on you guys, switch to Ruby On Rails! :-)

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  6. By Kerim Satirli on Jan 9, 2008

    there we go again – I was wondering when someone would say that ;-)

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  7. By Chris Obdam on Jan 9, 2008

    Well, somebody got to start the fire :-)

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  8. By Eric on Jan 10, 2008

    PHP 5 works just perfect for me. Most hosting providers in The Netherlands have upgraded to this version now. It is stable and has lot more to offer than PHP 4.

    Btw, nice picture, Boris!

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  9. By RRN on Jun 24, 2008

    @LennieZ Why choose? ;)

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