The last days of PHP4, and almost one month before seeing PHP4 keeping its last version forever. Currently 4.4.7 is the latest historical stable version of PHP4, it will be probably pushed to 4.4.8 since the PHP QA team are still supporting the PHP4 branch, and they will focus more on PHP5 and PHP6 branches in the very near future.
I saw and recieved notifications from many hosting providers who moved already their PHP hosting fully to PHP5, there will be no more PHP4 support which will be annoying for some customers who don’t have time or competence to switch their code. Some hosting providers will probably continue to offer PHP4 support for some more time, and anyway it’s not wrong to keep PHP4 enabled for another month until everyone move without interrupting the service or forcing a customer to move elsewhere.
Hosting providers knows better and in details about their customers, how many of them uses PHP4, how many uses PHP5, who are ready to switch, who not yet ready … etc.
In all cases, now it’s time to welcome the latest generation of PHP (5 and 6) with not only more features and stability, but also with a lot of enterprise enabled frameworks and solutions. This is going to make a serious change on the PHP usage at the enterprise level.
So are you ready for PHP5 ? Do you have old code in PHP4 only ? Did you manage to check compatibility and fix different issues ? For developers did you started coding in PHP5 or still using the PHP4 standard ?…
