PHP 4 End Of Life Announcement

[NexDog]

A few days ago an announcement was made by the developers of PHP at http://php.net concerning the discontinuation of of PHP 4:

[13-Jul-2007]
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.

For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

We have many servers running PHP 5 as default and it is completely stable. Pretty much all commercial scripts work with it or can be made to with a few tweaks. We will also keep to PHP's timeline and give our clients until December to migrate scripts to PHP 5 and during December PHP 5 will be deployed on all servers.

If you have a dedicated server with HostNexus please request the PHP 5 upgrade any time between now and December. If you don't want your server upgraded to PHP 5 that is fine too but the upgrade is highly recommended.