bye bye PHP 4

I have several servers running PHP 5 already, but as my laptop is my primary phpGroupWare development and test environment, it was running PHP 4.

I knew this day would come, I just didn’t think it would be so soon. PHP4 has been dropped from ubuntu. Ubuntu has never shipped php4 in main, but until feisty it has been in available in the universe. This is no more.

The advantage of using PHP 5 on ubuntu is that it is in main, so has full security support.

I started using PHP 3 and I was pretty enthusiastic about making the jump to PHP 4, but have held back on PHP 5 due to the problems with running phpGroupWare (and other scripts) under it. It looks like I no longer have any excuses.

Now that all the major distros ship PHP 5 and PHP 6 is around the corner, it is time to bury PHP 4. The world didn’t end when register globals was turned off by default. Switching to PHP 5 won’t kill us either, but holding back may.