24 July, 2007

Go PHP 5

Dear Customers:

We will soon be dropping support for PHP version 4 since PHP developers will discontinue PHP 4 by end of this year.

More details can be read at:

http://gophp5.org/

Please do read details at above site.

PHP officially announced "PHP 4 end of life" on 13 July 2007:

http://www.php.net/

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[13-Jul-2007]

Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. 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.
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So, kindly make sure all your PHP applications/scripts are version 5 compatible ASAP. We only have less than 160 days to plan for the upgrading. To play safe, we will most likely upgrade before the deadline.

For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, please refer to PHP migration guide:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php

In the past few years, like most of the web hosting providers, we did not upgrade to PHP 5 due to compatibility issues between PHP 4 and 5, but now all of us are forced to upgrade.

No choice, let's move forward together.

Please check your PHP scripts and make sure it's PHP5 compatible.

P.S. We are not able to check your PHP scripts as we know nothing about it. Please check with your web designer/programmer.