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As PHP 5.6, Still Used By a Large Number of Websites, Approaches Its End of Life Deadline, Some Worry About the Consequences (linkedin.com)

Posted by msmash on from the ticking-time-bomb dept.

An anonymous reader writes: I know PHP isn't to some devs liking, but chances are you know people who work with PHP or have sites that are built with it. PHP 5.6 and 7.0 are shortly coming to the end of the support period for security patches, so what plans have you made to migrate code and sites to newer platforms? With apparently huge numbers (80%) of sites still running PHP 5.6, there appears to be little industry acknowledgement of the issue. Is there a ticking PHP Time Bomb waiting to go off?

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  1. Re:A scary thing I just found out. by dbrueck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How can you be surprised? I'm sorry, but PHP has been known to have security issues for *decades*. Security was basically non-existent at first and then haphazardly bolted on afterwards.

    There was a time when I'd hire people who used PHP by choice, but that time is long gone. These days, if I'm interviewing someone who used PHP at their last gig, I expect to hear either

    1) "...but then we rewrote the system in something else"
    or
    2) "... and that's why I left that place".

    Nearly anything else raises doubts about their judgement and competence. They probably bought lawn darts for their nephew's birthday present.