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PHP.net announces end of life for PHP 4

By Bryan - Posted on 13 July 2007
If the project leaders and users of your favorite content management system are still debating when they should drop PHP 4 support, it looks like the PHP development team has helped make that decision for them.  PHP.net just announced the End of Life for PHP 4.  Starting in 2008, only security updates on a case-by-case basis will be provided...and PHP 4 is dead in August 2008.
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
More information available at PHP.net. So no more excuses...if you're still running PHP 4 there is no time better time than the present to check out PHP 5.2.

Comments

#1 the php aftermath

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Submitted by gamer (not verified) on July 14, 2007 - 12:20pm.
interesting to still see so many contrasting viewpoints on whether the death of php 4 is a good thing or not. for example, check out and compare Larry Garfield's post (one of the "founders" for gophp5) against Matt Mullenweg's post (wordpress). i've seen a few other rants from Matt regarding drupal, seems to not really be fond of the drupal community. though I have to agree with him, the gophp5 site could have a better look to it. p.s. this captcha sucks. how many times do i have to answer the silly math question? p.s.s. evidently one more time and it has nothing to do with my math skills

#2 Drupal-Wordpress conflict?

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Submitted by Bryan on July 14, 2007 - 3:12pm.
Where have you been gamer?  Haven't heard from you lately.

I'm curious as to what rants about Drupal you're talking about.  The only conflict in recent months I can recall between Wordpress and Drupal was when some of the Drupal folks thought Wordpress.com using the Drupal 5 Garland theme before Drupal 5 was released wasn't the best move.  Although Matt disagreed...he took the Wordpress theme offline until Drupal 5 was released.  I'd hardly call that a rant on Drupal, so what are you talking about?

Yes...I agree the Captcha module does need improvement...
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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.