Comments on: WordPress and PHP 5

By: BlogSecurity » Shifting to PHP5

BlogSecurity » Shifting to PHP5 — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:08:23 +0000

[...] Ryan Boren has already touched on the topic of WordPress and PHP5. For those who are not yet aware, PHP has announced that the popular PHP4 is to be phased out over the next year and PHP5 is now the top boy. [...]

By: JAVA development en vacatures voor Java software specialisten » Java best practices 4 - Native Arrays and Not Using Java 5.

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:48:19 +0000

[...] based on PHP 4 (2000), instead of on the newer and much improved PHP 5 (2004). See for instance http://boren.nu/archives/2007/05/11/wordpress-and-php-5. Next to that, many programmers also choose to remain at the PHP 4 level. The result is that PHP as [...]

By: L’Ogre PHPiste » Archive du blog » Boycotter Wordpress ?

L’Ogre PHPiste » Archive du blog » Boycotter Wordpress ? — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:29:49 +0000

[...] Pour sortir de ce cercle vicieux, les développeurs se doivent de montrer le voie. C’est en tout cas mon point de vue, ainsi que celui de Ryan Boren. [...]

By: Ben Wallis

Ben Wallis — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:54:56 +0000

PHP 5 is backwards-compatible for the most part. PHP 5 can run PHP 4 classes – I don’t see the problem with writing backwards-compatible PHP 5 scripts.

But PHP 6 is being released next year, so maybe we should skip PHP 5 all together?!

Or why not write WordPress.com in PHP 4 and WordPress.org in PHP 5?

By: Coder

Coder — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:55:30 +0000

I am not very interested in moving towards php5 either, i think once move environments are standardized like this then i will most likely move with that.

Nice Article.

By: Duane Culbertson

Duane Culbertson — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:25:53 +0000

Hi, I am a noobie – just building my own site right now. Can anyone tell me what are the main issues here? I mean what are the flaws that PHP5 fixes in PHP4?

Thanks.

By: Hosting Provider

Hosting Provider — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:10:31 +0000

Greetings All,
Here’s an interesting thought that I notice
no one even considered:
It is just this side of IMPOSSIBLE to run both
PHP4 /and/ PHP5 on the same box.
YES. Is is possible. But NOT with any REAL
stability. And NOT with any dependability.
There are a myriad of reasons hosting companys
aren’t jumping to make the switch to PHP5;
They are NOT provided with any approved/
recommended/confirmed documentation by
php.net to run both PHP4 and PHP5 on the
their hosting boxes. If they are /forced/ to
move to PHP5, they will need to migrate
100′s of 1,000′s of lines of code that will cost
$1,000′s of dollars to accomplish (more than
the cost of keeping/adding PHP5 want-to-have
clients). PHP.NET themselves run their own
servers (not just their web sites) on PHP4.
A change to PHP5 would cost /them/ and you
the user time and money.
Bottom line:
Until there is an acceptable and consistent way
to provide PHP4 /and/ PHP5 on the /same/ box
(server) this discussion is moot – pointless.
If you want the change, discover and document
a consistent and acceptable way for a server to
run both PHP4 and PHP5 on the same server.

By: SEO

SEO — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:02:58 +0000

WordPress 與 PHP 是兩種不同的。只要Wordpress 更好意就OK！
Wordpress2.2 need uptake to use easy。

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:37:03 +0000

I’m with you, Ryan. PHP4 has no death in sight. Without an EOL announcement, and as long as PHP5 (and its development) continues as an adolescent teenager (complete with “this is who I am, deal with it” rants), PHP4 will live on.

And to Johnathan Lyman, WordPress (usually) runs fine on PHP5. It just doesn’t use any PHP5-specific functionality.

By: Johnathan Lyman

Johnathan Lyman — Sun, 20 May 2007 02:47:16 +0000

I’ve always wondered if WordPress was going to ever be compatible with both (offer both php4 and php5).

I can choose to run either on my server, and PHP5 is defaulted with PHP4 as a fallback if I’m running a PHP4 application.

I’d love to see WP on PHP5.