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.

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My thoughts

PHP 5 is more stable, robust and feature-rich than PHP 4. It’s been many years since PHP 4’s first release, but since everyone’s taking so long just to move to PHP 5, I wonder how much of an impact on the PHP community PHP 4’s end-of-life will be able to make.

Luckily for NOVALISTIC 3.0 I develop in PHP 5. The framework on which I build NOVALISTIC 3.0 on though, CodeIgniter, is still usable with PHP 4, so it doesn’t harness the full power of PHP 5…

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