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PHP4 signals the end

By Dave-C - CEO | July 12, 2007

PHP has officially announced the end of support for PHP4. This will, no doubt, cause some headaches for die-hard PHP4 supporters, but the end has been coming for some time now, since the release of PHP5 and the ongoing development of PHP6.

As a side note, we’re checking all Netnibble servers thoroughly to make sure they all cope with PHP5 in a friendly manner, and I’ll post a bit more on this once Support give me the green light.

Here’s the official announcement from the PHP team:

PHP 4 end of life announcement

[12-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.

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