PHP 4 end of life announcement

Sohan · #1 07-30-2007, 06:50 PM

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[13-Jul-2007] Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well.

Are hosts all going to offer only PHP 5 hosting, or PHP 4 or both?

**TonyB** · #2 07-30-2007, 07:13 PM

Well we personally plan on offering PHP4 + PHP5 until at least the end of the year. Just way too many customers running legacy garbage that will take them ages to get rid of or fix. I could very well see PHP4 still being the primary for many hosts and PHP5 and then PHP 6 being optional with .htaccess.

Sohan · #3 07-30-2007, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyB

Well we personally plan on offering PHP4 + PHP5 until at least the end of the year. Just way too many customers running legacy garbage that will take them ages to get rid of or fix. I could very well see PHP4 still being the primary for many hosts and PHP5 and then PHP 6 being optional with .htaccess.

How do you offer different PHP versions with cpanel on 1 server?

Ben B · #4 07-30-2007, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sohan

How do you offer different PHP versions with cpanel on 1 server?

There is a How-to on the cpanel forums (http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=45908), but there may be other similar things up on the internet somewhere

Sohan · #5 07-30-2007, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben B

There is a How-to on the cpanel forums (http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=45908), but there may be other similar things up on the internet somewhere

Requires a .php5 extension, which isn't good imo.

I seen recently the host gator addon thing, which offers something similar.

**Justin** · #6 07-31-2007, 01:16 AM

Sohan,

As was mentioned it's very simple to change over specific sites to using a different PHP version. It simply requires one addhandler line in htacccss to switch versions around (two if .php4 isn't assigned in the main httpd.conf and you want to have scripts run as such at all on the domain in question).

The .php5 and/or .php4 extensions are just in the case of wanting to run both versions of php simultaneously on the same domain name.

cPanelDavidG · #7 07-31-2007, 10:43 AM

Running PHP 4 and 5 side-by-side will be supported in the Stage 2 release of cPanel 11.

**TonyB** · #8 07-31-2007, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by cPanelDavidG

Running PHP 4 and 5 side-by-side will be supported in the Stage 2 release of cPanel 11.

That's pretty cool, it really should have been mentioned somewhere.

Sohan · #9 07-31-2007, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by cPanelDavidG

Running PHP 4 and 5 side-by-side will be supported in the Stage 2 release of cPanel 11.

How long will that take?

**layer0** · #10 07-31-2007, 07:31 PM

It's a nice feature, but I don't see why it should really be necessary. It is very easy to implement this.

Jag · #11 07-31-2007, 07:47 PM

We've been doing this for a long long time. We have been supporting php4 and 5 on the same servers since php5 was out of beta. You dont need to wait for cpanel to do something to start doing it.

**TonyB** · #12 08-01-2007, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Jag

We've been doing this for a long long time. We have been supporting php4 and 5 on the same servers since php5 was out of beta. You dont need to wait for cpanel to do something to start doing it.

True, and that's what we've been doing for ages as well. But it's always nice to have cPanel do things so don't have any question of things somehow getting broken in the custom configed parts of the server.