Which to choose: php5; php4; zend; mmcache??

[TheBeginner]

Installing php on my IIS6 and have this question?

If I install php5 I can't have mmcache. Can I have zend together with php5?

Is it then better to install latest php4? Then if so, is mmcache or zend to prefer?

[planetsim]

You are talking about Zend Optimizer? If so yes you can have Zend and PHP 5 together.

Also PHP 4, depends its always best if its a production server then most defiantly, if its only a testing development server you may want to get just the version your host gets and try to match the installation they have.

Well since Zend is the main engine of PHP, zend is best however ive never used mmcache.

[stephaneey]

Regarding the coding, PHP5 is certainly better than PHP4, it introduces loads of new features.

mainly in the OOP, SQLite, SimpleXML areas

Regarding the installation, PHP5 is obviously more annoying since not many precompiled packages are available. Therefore, you need to compile it yourself which is sometimes tricky. I did it for the following platforms

• Solaris
• Linux
• AIX
• Windows (binary provided already)

and now I'm struggling with HP and it's really a mess! For example, php4 is much easier to install on HP-UX!

Regarding the stability, I must say that so far, I didn't notice many problems with PHP5!