22 replies to this topic

[Dean]

Please fill out poll.

Regards,
Dean

[lloyd_borrett]

G'day,

I only get to vote once. But I use PHP 4.4.4 on about 20 different web sites across 15 servers.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[Dean]

For those that also do the same, post here, and I can update the votes.

[PaulD]

Hi,

I too have voted once but also use php 4.4.4 on nine live sites and four more half built and hardly maintained but slowly getting there when I get a spare five minutes and can find the motivation (for what were in fact poorly researched and poorly thought out ideas in the first place!).

I'm not sure block voting is relevant to this poll. But if so can my 13 votes be added too. (The graph is becoming a touch one sided!)

Paul

[Ralph]

PaulD, on Mar 24 2007, 10:07 PM, said:

I'm not sure block voting is relevant to this poll. But if so can my 13 votes be added too. (The graph is becoming a touch one sided!)

Paul

This is exactly what we want to see, actual installation total statistics, not developer preference... The more installation specific data we have, the better we can assess current and future code base needs...

[lloyd_borrett]

G'day,

The result is likely to reflect the PHP version that is currently most widely provided by web hosting companies. Most of us have no control over which versions of the LAMP components we are using. What the web host provides we use.

By choice, we'd probably use whatever Ralph asked us to use. But most of us don't have the choice.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[Randy]

lloyd_borrett, on Mar 24 2007, 11:57 PM, said:

G'day,

The result is likely to reflect the PHP version that is currently most widely provided by web hosting companies. Most of us have no control over which versions of the LAMP components we are using. What the web host provides we use.

By choice, we'd probably use whatever Ralph asked us to use. But most of us don't have the choice.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

And it certainly appears to be 4.4.X. We'll be able to do everything we need to in >4.1 including any OO development needed.

[katherholt]

Ralph, on Mar 24 2007, 11:44 PM, said:

This is exactly what we want to see, actual installation total statistics, not developer preference... The more installation specific data we have, the better we can assess current and future code base needs...

I have 35 live sites using a multi-host shared server using the same 4.44 version.

[Dean]

I think that 4.4.4 is going to be the one that most are using

[Jim Browski]

I seem to be the first one who uses/voted for PHP 5.2

No problems with current eto.

[katherholt]

Ralph, on Mar 24 2007, 11:44 PM, said:

This is exactly what we want to see, actual installation total statistics, not developer preference... The more installation specific data we have, the better we can assess current and future code base needs...

Here is the standard installation used by www.site5.com web hosting service:
http://www.bluebonnetdesigns.com/checkphp.php

[Ralph]

katherholt, on Mar 26 2007, 09:03 AM, said:

Here is the standard installation used by www.site5.com web hosting service:
http://www.bluebonnetdesigns.com/checkphp.php

Thanks, Karen... How many sites are you hosting using this site5.com configuration...???

[katherholt]

Ralph, on Mar 26 2007, 09:16 AM, said:

Thanks, Karen... How many sites are you hosting using this site5.com configuration...???

I have an unlimited plan (which is great), currently I have 38 Etomite installed web sites - not all in the same version, though. I also have 1 temporary web site under development.

[mikef]

all sites that matter on 4.4.x ... any others can be moved if necessary.

[Dean]

PHP.net have just made an EOL Announcement RE PHP4

[PaulD]

Dean, on Jul 15 2007, 09:57 PM, said:

PHP.net have just made an EOL Announcement RE PHP4

Oh no, here we go. The end of php4, I suppose it had to happen. There are loads of cool things about php5 though and one of my eto sites runs fine on it (as far as I can tell).

Imagine the resources they will save from not supporting php4 any more. However I wonder how much chaos will ensue as hosts switch or turn off php4. All those unsupported open source systems not being upgraded. A clean sweep. How will sourceforge cope? There are already so many dead or spammy projects on it.

Paul.

[Ralph]

With news that PHP4 is heading the way of the dinosaur, I have been deliberating on whether it will be worth retaining PHP4 compatibility for Cocoon... Now is the time to make the decision - while I'm doing some major R&D before serious coding begins... Going PHP5 would make bringing the code base to a usable level a reality much more quickly...

[Jim Browski]

Ralph, on Jul 18 2007, 11:33 PM, said:

... I have been deliberating on whether it will be worth retaining PHP4 compatibility for Cocoon... Now is the time to make the decision ...

I encourage you to focus on PHP5 only. Here in Germany i noticed many webhosters switching from PHP4 to PHP5 (and from mySQL 4 to mySQL 5) recently. I think that at least in germany webhosters that only support PHP4 will be absolutely outnumbered at the end of the year. So in my opinion you should only care about support for PHP5 and mySQL5 when coding for cocoon. And that will be more fun too

P.S.: Can't wait to see the first official alpha/beta of cocoon.

[Dean]

I don't think we should abandon mySQL 4 any time soon.

[Ralph]

Dean, on Jul 18 2007, 06:01 PM, said:

I don't think we should abandon mySQL 4 any time soon.

I don't think you'll see the need for MySQL 5 only applications for a while - at least not from the Etomite project...