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Official Support For PHP 4 Ends

Da Massive writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld: "For a technology that has been in stable release since May 22, 2000, PHP 4 has finally reached the end of its official life. With the release of PHP 4.4.9, official support has ended and the final security patch for the platform issued. ...With eight years of legacy code out there, it is likely that there are going to be a fairly large number of systems that will not migrate to PHP 5 in the near future, and a reasonable proportion of those that will not make the migration at all. For those who are not able to migrate their systems to the new version of PHP, noted PHP security expert Stefan Esser will continue to provide third party security patching for the PHP 4 line through his Suhosin product."

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  1. Now that magic quotes are off by default... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    FRIST PSOT!!!!!'); DELETE FROM replies WHERE reply != 'FRIST PSOT!!!!!'; --

  2. PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by... by exabrial · · Score: 5, Funny

    PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals. -- Jon Ribbens Amen.

  3. Re:By Neruos by Refenestrator · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right. He should have compared it to a car.

  4. Re:Good News/Bad News by SimGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where did you get your php info?

    I get mine from phpinfo();

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    I don't care, but don't let that stop you from trying to tell me anyway.
  5. Re:By Neruos by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you mean, an african or an european car?

  6. Re:PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by. by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer this quote:

    PHP: There's more than one way to do it, all of which are wrong.

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    Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
  7. Re:Good to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if only they'd let the current version die too, we'd really be making progress..