When Does Your Host Plan on Supporting PHP5?

Involved Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 263

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who have hosted us support both php4/5 incase incompatabilities

New Member Joined: Dec 05, 2007 Posts: 12

Hi All

I have been with my host for a long time, so I guess that's why I'm still on PHP4. I was looking around and saw that I can switch to PHP5 if I want to.

The options are: PHP4 CGI (Not Recommended)
PHP5 CGI
PHP5 FASTCGI (Recommended)

Would the recommended one work fine with my Raven Nuke install ?
Also for the any old modules I have, would the DBI thing fix them, if they weren't to work after upgrading. I guess I'm a little scared to go through with it, since it says I cannot go back to PHP4 once I make the change.

Thanks

registered · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:40 pm

I would use xampp and test it with a local install to get all the bugs worked out first.

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:13 pm

The regular RN would work fine, but if you have third party modules installed they could be a problem. I would say it would probably be fine, but you can test it like Nuken said. If our site is just recreational i would just switch and see. You could always switch it back.

Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:41 pm

Thanks for the replies

I decided to test it locally with xampp. It took me a while to figure out but I got it working and everything on the site seems to be working fine. I guess I will go through with it and go to PHP5.

Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2009 Posts: 132

since PHP5 has been out for so long now, im really amazed at the amount of hosts that still offer PHP4

Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:44 am

I'm glad it is working for you hopper. XAMPP is great for testing things without risk to your site.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

kd8hho wrote:

since PHP5 has been out for so long now, im really amazed at the amount of hosts that still offer PHP4

I do it as a courtesy. I have clients that have everything running just as they need it to and forcing them to PHP5 would mean upgrading their scripts which they don't feel like taking that on right now.

registered · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:50 am

hopper wrote:

I guess I will go through with it and go to PHP5.

Yea! Another convert!

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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:28 pm

Hi to everybody! My host has also options to switch from php 4 to php 5.2 and php 5.3. It has 3 options.

Nuke said:

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XAMPP is great for testing things without risk to your site

I am not so familiar with Xamp yet. I always use wamp. Can you explain a little bit how it works. Is it better than wamp? Question

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:49 pm

XAMPP works on linux or windows, that's the only reason I like it better than wamp.

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:00 am

and the fact that I've been using it on both Windows and Linux for at least six years and have never had an issue with it... including upgrades. Provides a fully functioning development environment of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. There are even additional add-ons for other things such as a Java stack. Also comes with an FTP server and mail server if you need those (i've never used).

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:01 pm

Oops! I didn't read this post since the last time so I just want to thank you for suggesting me running xamp. Incredible amazing. Better than wamp. Thanks guys