So long PHP4... GoPHP5

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Friday, July 6. 2007

Posted by Cristian Rodriguez

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So long PHP4... GoPHP5

Yup, The time has come, developers agree, It is now official, Flyspray 1.0 (to be out by the end of this year) will be the last version with PHP4 support, in the future our software will run exclusively on PHP 5.1 or later (including use of features present in PHP 5.2 as well upcoming PHP6), this will help us to cleanup and improve our code significantly and make use of the enormous amount of benefits that PHP5 provides.

We are joining among other FOSS projects like phpMyAdmin, Drupal, Typo3, Symfony to the GoPHP5 initiative so, effectively on February 5, 2008 we will only produce and recieve code contributions that runs in PHP5 and are E_STRICT error mode aware.

However, the last PHP4 releases will still be mantained but only for security bugs or major regressions, no new features. for at least 3/4 months since the 1.0 release, so you have more than a year from now on to upgrade your PHP version.

It is time to move on folks, PHP4 is dead, long live to PHP5. ;-)


Update: In fact, already version 1.0 will be PHP5 only. The release date is still unkown though.

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I agree with this decision.
I hope only that both Apache and IIS supports will be preserved.
#1 E. Durup on 2007-07-06 12:08 (Reply)
Well its been nice knowing you PHP4.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.

-Ed
#2 Ed Haber (Homepage) on 2007-07-06 18:10 (Reply)
Excellent news! If you're participating in GoPHP5, please setup a page on the site and then submit your project at GoPHP5.org. The more projects we have officially participating the better we'll all be, and it's free advertising for you as well. :-)
#3 Larry Garfield (Homepage) on 2007-07-09 06:50 (Reply)
Yes a lot of projects our now joining that gophp5 and i think its good that people are moving on and getting on to php5 :-)
#4 Christopher on 2007-07-10 03:53 (Reply)
GO PHP 5!!! Go Flyspray!

by the way, is this correct? "It is time to move on folks, PHP4 is dead, long live to PHP4. ;-)"

Don't you mean Love Live To PHP5!?
#5 Rowan (Homepage) on 2007-07-13 12:55 (Reply)
looks like..fixed ;-)
#5.1 judas_iscariote (Homepage) on 2007-07-13 15:49 (Reply)
Flyspray is a very good piece of software, but PHP5 is rubbish ;-)

Go to http://stopphp5.org and see why.
#6 jin (Homepage) on 2007-10-18 15:07 (Reply)
hahaha.. that site is funny LOL :-)
#6.1 judas_iscariote (Homepage) on 2007-10-19 08:29 (Reply)

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