GOPHP 5

[BioALIEN]

Hi All,

As of next month, all major projects will be switching to PHP5 and ditching php4 support. This is a big effort to let php4 die peacefully and encourage all ISPs to support php5+ in order to ensure the survival of PHP as they focus and build on php6.

If PHP dies, it will be a big blow to the internet. You can read more about the initiative here: http://www.gophp5.org

As a result, I wanted to kindly open this topic to the developers of ispCP. IMHO, we should drop support for PHP4 completely and focus on only supporting php5 as standard. It would make ispCP a lot easier to manage one php version, and also this could be a good excuse to drop previous support such as the "upgrade/update script" and start fresh. It's important to mention we still don't have an update path and this is becoming harder by the day as we improve ispCP further.

What do you think? I am only referring to the *default* package shipped by ispCP! Obviously, a good sys admin will still be able to customise ispCP and enable php4 if they wish - so it's not life or death here

[rbtux]

with fast-cgi the effort in providing different version is not that high (when you don't want to change via webpanel). I would let it be the way it is, because when php6 comes it's nice to have the availability to switch between 5/6...

[RatS]

No need to burst out PHP4-Support. Big Providers still provided PHP3 until August 2007.

In my mind you have not understand the Idea of goPHP5. GoPHP5 wants to transmit the developement of PHP-Projects to PHP5. If you have time to waste, feel free and port ispCP to PHP5.

P.S:

Quote:No leave php4 and php5 support and slow down ispCP development

is crap. Version switching is implemented and will not slow down development - no more changes needed.

[raphael]

Quote:port ispCP to PHP5

it already works on php5 so there isn't really *anything* to port.

Quote:could be a good excuse to drop previous support such as the "upgrade/update script" and start fresh

and dropping php4 support doesn't mean we don't need an upgrade script (although I still consider the rc2x-rc3 migration code useless).