[uf-discuss] Re: Parsing XFN in PHP

[Toby A Inkster]

Michael MD wrote:

> There are still lots of people stuck with php4 on shared servers ... 

I suspect that won't be the case much longer after security updates for 
PHP4 are discontinued in August.

> What did they expect? ... changing a language in ways that breaks
> existing code is hardly the way to encourage people to upgrade to a new
> version!

There are virtually no changes in PHP5 that break existing PHP4 code.

Some things like register_globals and auto-escaping of incoming variables 
are turned off by default in PHP5 (they were on by default in PHP 4.0 
IIRC) but can be switched on in php.ini or a .htaccess file in a matter of 
seconds.

PHP6 will be a more painful switch for those with legacy code. (But still 
fairly painless for those updating from PHP5-style code.)

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