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PHP5 to replace PHP4

The PHP development team has recently announced that PHP4 has reached its End Of Life (EOL). This means that the product will eventually no longer be maintained by the PHP development group. If the software vendor does not support their technology, it means that Raven Web Services, LLC will not be able to support PHP4...

From the php.net site:

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"PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5."

What does this mean to you?
If you are running PHP4-based software, (which most of us are) it means that you should start the process to make sure your PHP4 scripts will work in PHP5. We encourage everyone to have their scripts made PHP5 compatible by November 10th, 2007 as we will be dropping support for PHP4 by November 15th.

ALL WEBSITE OWNERS: Please ask your programmers and developers to ensure your site is PHP5 compatible no later than November 10, 2007.

Here is a link that may help some of you in the conversion process. Many of you will not need to do a thing, but we recommend that you check that your site will work well before the migration takes place. Check every function that you use in your daily running of your websites. Some sites may be totally broken but the fixes are not usually major, but dependent on how the application is written it might entail some time on your part.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php

We currently have all setup for PHP5 + PHP4 so that you can test your software under PHP5 before PHP5 becomes the default version of PHP. We have set up a parallel environment for you to do your testing. It's very simple. To test your site(s) under PHP 5, just add this line as the first line in your public_html/.htaccess file: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .php4 .php3 .phtml

That's all there is to it. Test your sites and all functionality for thoroughness. If you use third party software/addons that fail then you will need to contact the vendor(s) to get them to fix their applications.