Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

["Cristian Rodriguez" <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Then presumably *no-one* using the main Linux distros will be able to
> design
> sites for customers using hosters still on PHP4 without a lot of needless
> hassle.

migration to PHP5 for the large part of applications out there is very
simple.

>I feel happy that I am in such august and universal company, but
> that isn't the point.  Until the bulk of lower-tier hosters have moved to
> PHP5 or PHP6 (you might like to do a bit of scouting around to see just
> how
> few have moved so far even to PHP5),

this is caused by a chicken and egg problem... if we provide both PHP4 and
5 , peeple will stay in php4 and we will have to support it and theyu will
not move...

> You may be in the luxurious position of telling a client to move hosters

Kinda, telling customers to get a decent hosting platform.


>  but how exactly is saying that
> PHP4 is so insecure that no-one should ever use it under *any*
> circumstances
> going to help the image of PHP6 (when it appears)?


PHP6 does not have the key insecure features like register_globals,
magic_quotes, safe_mode..





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