Php 5

[abstraktMedia]

Hi!

Now when php 5 is getting closer and a lot of programmers are waiting for the release there are lot of people who we'll be looking for the hosting company who will offer php 5...The first one that does that will gain a lot of customers that's for sure...

I myself also have a lot of customers who are asking me about php 5 and when it will be available so I can describe those customers like "we like your hosting but if someone offers php5 we want hesitate to go to them"..

My suggestion (and question) is...Can you offer php5(when it will be officially released) on one of your servers as a "test period" cause I believe Gator and the resellers will be getting more customers like that...

Any info about that would be app..

thanx

[GatorJustin]

We will definitely be upgrading to php 5 after it goes gold. Before we do so, however, we will want to be sure that it is bug-free and that there are no support issues with any of the existing scripts we offer. We'll be sure to let you know when the time comes.

I'm also going to move this to Suggestions, since this is not a support issue.

-Justin

[MaraBlue]

Originally Posted by abstraktMedia

Hi!

Now when php 5 is getting closer and a lot of programmers are waiting for the release there are lot of people who we'll be looking for the hosting company who will offer php 5...The first one that does that will gain a lot of customers that's for sure...

I myself also have a lot of customers who are asking me about php 5 and when it will be available so I can describe those customers like "we like your hosting but if someone offers php5 we want hesitate to go to them"..

My suggestion (and question) is...Can you offer php5(when it will be officially released) on one of your servers as a "test period" cause I believe Gator and the resellers will be getting more customers like that...

Any info about that would be app..

thanx

Bleeding-edge is not always a best practice.

[BradCis]

By any chance, when PHP 5 does come out (officially). will you only have that put on some servers? I have a lot of scripts which currently only work with PHP 4 and below. if you were to upgrade the server, i would have tons of errors. I'm sure some others would have the same problem.

[abstraktMedia]

Originally Posted by MaraBlue

Bleeding-edge is not always a best practice.

he who dares....

[gregw]

I would love to see you upgrade to the latest version, however I would suggest sending out a mass email to your clients before you do, as this is no ordinary upgrade. Many of my site rely 100% on PHP and all of my CD-ROM projects rely on a PHP driven website that they connect to. If that one script doesn't work it would render about a half million discs useless.

Probably the best thing for me (and others) to do is to go ahead and download PHP 5 and start working with it on our local machines. That way we can test our own scripts before HG switches. For those of you who aren't running PHP locally for your scripts, you should give it a try. It's a fairly simple setup (http://www.php.net/downloads.php) . Plus you can run MySQL locally also! It makes PHP development much faster since you don't have to upload to HG before you test your scripts.

Greg
www.eternalinteractive.com

[Maven]

I would also like advanced warning on when this upgrade is coming. We're working now to upgrade all client scripts, but it would be very nice to get significant advanced warning so we have a chance to get everyone upgraded in time.

Thanks

[psylenced]

Maybe can it be installed under .php5 files so .php still get run under php 4, but people can still test by renaming their files.

[jas01724]

Most of my scripts are currently being modified to work under PHP5, however to be on the safe side i'd probably need a good couple of months to debug everything before guaranteeing it would work. Luckily I doubt HostGator will be switching over that soon, so I should be safe.

I code pretty slowly.

[gigableu]

Originally Posted by BradCis

By any chance, when PHP 5 does come out (officially). will you only have that put on some servers? I have a lot of scripts which currently only work with PHP 4 and below. if you were to upgrade the server, i would have tons of errors. I'm sure some others would have the same problem.

I am using scripts that are still in beta for php5 and are likely to be so for quite a while.

Best regards Steve

[Nutter]

If / when the upgrade does happen; what about keeping both versions and parsing .php4 files w/ version 4, and .php5 as version 5? That way, we can choose.

[sumtotal]

Bleeding edge is a wonderful thing...but I don't want to bleed customers in the process. Get it (php 5) bugless and go from there.

[gabe]

So, any plans yet? There are some great new features in PHP5 that I'd really like to use.

[abstraktMedia]

what about keeping both versions and parsing .php4 files w/ version 4, and .php5 as version 5?

Not possible I'm afraid....

[gabe]

Originally Posted by abstraktMedia

what about keeping both versions and parsing .php4 files w/ version 4, and .php5 as version 5?

Not possible I'm afraid....

There are many ways to do this:
http://hurring.com/howto/apache/php4_and_php5/

-or-

LoadModule php5 libexec/libphp5.so
LoadModule php4 libexec/libphp4.so

AddModule mod_php5.c
AddModule mod_php4.c

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

[abstraktMedia]

and what about php.ini!?