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Official Support For PHP 4 Ends

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-actually-knew-ye-pretty-well dept.

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. Re:wow FUDSTER by corsec67 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People will still be allowed to get PHP 4 after it is EOL'd.

    Try buying a new copy of XP now. Even getting a computer with XP (and not paying for Vista) is getting difficult now.

    That is the difference.

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  2. Re:wow FUDSTER by Low+Ranked+Craig · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The difference is that PHP5 works great, whereas Vista is a steaming pile of crap. If Vista was any good, I'd be fine with MS killing XP. but it's not.

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  3. Re:wow FUDSTER by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And I can build PHP4 or PHP5 from source, or intall binaries, without sending any money at all to Newegg.

  4. On the other hand by Almahtar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whether or not you see OOP as overhyped, if a language features OOP it should do it well or not at all.

    Nobody is asking you to like OOP in this case, but if you are going to support it, support it well - not half-assed.