Official Support For PHP 4 Ends 245
Da Massive writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld:
"For a technology that has been in stable release since May 22, 2000, PHP 4 has finally reached the end of its official life. With the release of PHP 4.4.9, official support has ended and the final security patch for the platform issued. ...With eight years of legacy code out there, it is likely that there are going to be a fairly large number of systems that will not migrate to PHP 5 in the near future, and a reasonable proportion of those that will not make the migration at all. For those who are not able to migrate their systems to the new version of PHP, noted PHP security expert Stefan Esser will continue to provide third party security patching for the PHP 4 line through his Suhosin product."
Now that magic quotes are off by default... (Score:5, Funny)
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Obi-Wan (Score:3, Funny)
I felt a great disturbance in the CVS, as if millions of lines of code suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good to see... (Score:4, Funny)
First step to get rid of PHP. Now... (Score:1, Funny)
...when will that happen to PHP5? :P
Re:By Neruos (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good News/Bad News (Score:5, Funny)
Where did you get your php info?
I get mine from phpinfo();
Re:Obi-Wan (Score:4, Funny)
Re:By Neruos (Score:5, Funny)
What do you mean, an african or an european car?
Re:Good News/Bad News (Score:3, Funny)
Agreed. Maybe I'm an asshole (no wait, that's a guaranteed fact), but I have no pity for anyone still running PHP4... if they wanted to switch, they had all the time in the world to do so. PHP5 has been out for what, 4 or 5 years now ? Anyone still running on the old stuff is either happy with it and shouldn't bother upgrading, or hopelessly incompetent.
That said, I'm very eager to see PHP6... I don't really want to switch over to Ruby / Python, largely for performance reasons, so I'm curious to see what new ghetto tools PHP6 will provide me. Even though it's a shit language, I always thought it had a certain charm in its crudeness and the fact that there's a (redundant) function for everything imaginable. I write all manner of scripts in PHP, even non-web stuff, as it lets me do stuff in a fraction of the time.
Re:Obi-Wan (Score:3, Funny)
Re:PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by. (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer this quote [reddit.com]:
Re:Good to see... (Score:5, Funny)
Now if only they'd let the current version die too, we'd really be making progress..
Re:As a big fan of PHP who cut his teeth on PHP4 . (Score:4, Funny)
Traditionally, when network engineers and administrators draw diagrams of networks, they represent the connection to the Internet as a big bumpy object not unlike a child's drawing of a cloud.
That's true, and I've done it often enough myself. I also draw databases in the traditional manner, and yet I never feel the need to refer to them as cylinders.