My uni just upgraded to PHP5

dougal85

Version 5.0.4

Why? Why? Why!?

dalecosp

Little choice, I suppose. PHP4 is quite EOL.

Or, didja mean, why didn't they go all the way to 5.2.$n ?

Sxooter

Are you asking why they upgraded to php5 (any version) or php 5.0.4 in particular.

I know 5.0.x has been end of lifed, and replaced by the 5.2 branch. Maybe they're running some distro that has 5.0.x in it and that's what they went with?

I've been running the latest 5.2 versions for some time now and they certainly seem to work well.

dougal85

why 5.0.4

I don't know much about setting up servers etc. but i would have thought 5.2 or something would have been the obvious choice. Surely it can be upgraded even if it comes with a distro?

Although, mentioning that I didn't manage to update a fedora install a few weeks ago that had 5.0.8 - gave up in the end.

It's a pain n the ass for me, I've been working with 5.2 lately and now I've got to take a step back. No more PDO, SimpleXML and so on... The only thing I'll learn in this class is how to use an old version of PHP a bit more.

halojoy

I have PHP 5.2.4 and Apache 2.2.4

But I ran into problems loading MySQL module
when trying the PHP 6-dev snapshot 1 week ago.
With LightTPD ( php-cgi.exe ) fast webserver on another port number.

If comment out php_mysql.dll will be no problem.
Think I tried 4-5 different builds of php_mysql.dll and 3-4 different libmysql.dll.

Yes, I agree it is strange to upgrade to PHP 5.0.4 .....
Wouldnt a X.0 version be the one with most problem of anything.
Many bugfixes!

PHP 5.2 is the 3rd major version of PHP 5.
And PHP 5.2.4 is the 5th update to this version.
Of course it is considerably less buggy than 5.0.
I would even consider PHP 4.4.7 before 5.0, if it wasnt End Of Life.

Two and a half ( 2.5 ) years ago, is a long time in computer world!

5.0.4

[b]* Released: 31 Mar 2005[/b]
* Announcement: English
* ChangeLog[/QUOTE]

rulian

halojoy:
To your signature, amen, i've had to correct so many instances of that from the previous guy on my team.