[wp-testers] PHP 4.3 for WP 2.5

[Aaron Brazell]

...and here we go again...

See what you started, Ryan? Why couldn't you just leave your hands off  
and let us stay on PHP 4.2. Damn you :-)
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Aaron Brazell
Director of Technology, b5media

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On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Jacob Santos wrote:

> Matt wrote:
>> On Jan 25, 2008 7:17 PM, Dan Milward <dan at instinct.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I don't think most people use PHP 5. Most web hosts I have  
>>> researched
>>> still use a stable version of PHP 4.x.x because PHP 5 has not been  
>>> out
>>> long enough.... just my 2c worth :))
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's been out for 3 years, and PHP 4 development has ended!
>>
>
>
> Factual statements, both of them. Recent statistics have placed PHP  
> 4.2 at below 2% of all PHP installations, the most popular being 4.3  
> and 4.4. PHP 5 is creeping up there, depending on where you get your  
> stats. I think most shared hosts do allow you the option of either  
> PHP4 or PHP5. I have found several that don't, but not as good as  
> the others that do.
>
> I think the people who are going to complain the most are those on  
> dedicated servers, which made it difficult to upgrade over the past,  
> say many years that PHP 4.2 came out. I think it is fascinating that  
> people of the small minority are still running 4.2.
>
> After 8/8/08, no updates, including security patches will come out  
> for PHP 4.4.x branch. This means that users running those versions  
> will have to upgrade or risk being exploited when a security hole is  
> found in PHP 4.4.x.