PHP versions - Development server & live server...

paliz

Hi all,

I am running Win XP Pro as my development machine - at present I have PHP 4.3.4 installed on this machine. My question is...my two web hosts for my PHP hosting have PHP 4.3.2 & PHP 4.3.4 installed respectively...what happens if I install the latest production release of PHP, namely 4.3.9, on my Win XP Pro machine and then develop using that? Will I be able to use pages coded on my dev machine on the live servers, even though the servers are running older versions of PHP? What do I need to be looking out for with regard to conflicts?

Thanks!

Peter

biggus

I think most minor versions of PHP are bug fixes, but to be sure, I always try to have the same version on my development machine as on the production one. In your case, I'd stick with 4.3.4, although at present I have 4.3.9.9 on my dev box, but the live server has 4.3.8 and there've been no issues and the code we use is pretty intense at times.

paliz

Many thanks, that seems to be the best way.

Much appreciated...