As an experienced PHP programmer, I'd HIGHLY recommend coders, especially beginners, tick with PHP version 4. I know its tempting to get the 'latest and greatest', however, v5 is still too new, and the majority of servers out there still only support v4 code, so you will run into problems if you already start using functions/methods available in v5 only, and dont own/operate/have root on the server in which your code is going to run, and only ever run.
I don't plan to make the switch to version 5 for at le
This is a great point. I think/hope that PHP5 has a faster adoption rate amongst hosting companies, but it'll still take some time.
PHP5 *does* make sense for corporate/internal developers, or anyone else writing for a more controlled environment. For average joe, however, widespread PHP5 support is still minimally months off, if not years (I hope not!)
Documentation, libraries, stability, experience. Oh, and PHP5 is a very different language than PHP3 & 4. There are some advatages and some built in libraries that make PHP5 desirable, but not enough to risk the change... yet. Next year I'll start learning and evaluating PHP5. But it'll probably be 2006 before we bother to even attempt it in a real environment. Who knows, maybe Apache 2 will be ready by then?
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Stick with PHP 4 (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't plan to make the switch to version 5 for at le
Re:Stick with PHP 4 (Score:5, Interesting)
PHP5 *does* make sense for corporate/internal developers, or anyone else writing for a more controlled environment. For average joe, however, widespread PHP5 support is still minimally months off, if not years (I hope not!)
PHP4 vs. PHP5 (Score:1)
Re:PHP4 vs. PHP5 (Score:1)