PHP4 deprecated
The world moved on since this content was published 4 years 9 months 21 days ago. Exercise diligent care when following any instructions and see opinions in the time they were written. If you must have an updated version, please ask kindly through the contact page.It’s been 3 years allready since PHP5 was introduced. I still remember me buying a book for PHP5 a few days after it was released, to learn about the new OOP features in PHP5. Though way too late to be an early adapter, I did adapt it soon after PHP5 was released. And besides some freelance jobs, I managed to stick with PHP5 for the whole 3 years. And, as you probably knew allready, I even became PHP5 certified a short time ago.
The fact that many developers adapted PHP5 allready, doesn’t mean PHP4 was forgotten instantly. In the contrary, a lot of webhosts and business critical applications still run solely on PHP4. That’s going to change soon, as the PHP group announced that support for PHP4 will be dropped by the end of the year. Because they realize that not everyone can switch that fast, they will patch security risks till August 2008. And then it is really over… Finally… With a lifecycle of 9 years, I think the PHP group did an awesome job. In the constantly changing world of webdevelopment, 9 years is like an eternity. It will sure be missed…
~RW
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Released: on Jul 15, 2007 under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs (CC-BY-ND) license
