Re: [gentoo-server] PHP4

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:38 +0100, Yves Thommes wrote:
> i'm rather in a tight spot, management of course doesn't want to drop
> the customers and either the customer doesn't have the resources to pay
> for a migration, or maybe even the web-agency who developed the website
> several years ago has been put out of business or <insert any business
> reason you like> and we don't have the know-how ourselves to migrate the
> system.

Can you be more specific about the technical issues? What sorts of errors or functionality losses do you see on the problem websites if you try to run them on PHP5, or are you just noting that a 3rd party developer has said that the sites won't run on PHP5?

This is of more than academic interest to me. I run a professional web hosting service and am faced with a similar problem. A couple dozen of my client sites are going to have to be migrated here from PHP4 to PHP5 soon, which will involve moving databases, changing DNS for them and seeing where they break. I wrote most of the PHP code so I should be able to figure it out pretty easily if there are any snags. PHP gets about a B for being explicit and clear in emitting meaningful error messages.

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