I’m a laggard in terms of adoption and in this case PHP5. Upgrade to PHP5 was held back since most applications work fine on PHP4 and some even has issues with PHP5. But all these is about to change because of Mediawiki.
I wanted to use Mediawiki for a few wiki that I like to start. Mediawiki however, had stopped development on PHP4 platform and support only PHP5. My choice is either to use the legacy version or move on to PHP5. I bit the bullet and chose the latter.
Upgrade went pretty painless. Much, much more simple than I imagine. Just a configuration change, a package update and a apache restart. Thanks to this piece of information.
Everything seems to be working fine, at least this blog looks ok.
Well done. I took my first step into PHP5.
From a developers point of view, PHP5 is definitely the way to go. PHP5 is much better, has many features lacking php4, and also supports OO development in a much better way. Since I switched a little over a year ago, I don’t want to go back anymore.
Looking forward to move to PHP5 eventually.