porting to PHP5

[Andrea A]

Hi all,
I'm starting implementig a big website in PHP and i will finish it by the
end of August.
What recommendations do you have about implementing in php5 ?
And where can I found more informations and standards about the new version?


Thanks in advance,
a.

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Re: porting to PHP5

Andrea A wrote:
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> Hi all,
> I'm starting implementig a big website in PHP and i will finish it by the
> end of August.
> What recommendations do you have about implementing in php5 ?
> And where can I found more informations and standards about the new version?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> a.
>
>[/color]

Is there any functionality in PHP5 that you don't have in PHP4? I'm not
doubting the PHP developers ability, but are you really sure that a
stable release of PHP5 will be available by August?

I've been faced with the same delima and the way I look at it, just
because a new version comes out, it doesn't mean the older version is
useless - Its stable and has plenty of support out there. I'm still
using Apache 1.3 though there are others (like (I believe) the php.net
website who use Apache2 for more than a year or so).

Lastly, if I were you and the above weren't good enough to decide, I'd
let your boss/customer decide the risk factor - They could have
something that is written in tried/tested/stable code with plenty of
support, or they could have something with new code with less production
environment testing and less history/support.

[B. Johannessen]

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Andrea A wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm starting implementig a big website in PHP and i will finish it by
> the end of August. What recommendations do you have about
> implementing in php5 ? And where can I found more informations and
> standards about the new version?[/color]

http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php is a good place to start. If
you are using XML in any way, shape or form, you should check out
http://slides.bitflux.ch/phpconf2003/ as well.

My impression after a few days of playing with beta4: I *love*
many of the new features, but there are still bugs (for example
using pg_fetch_object () causes a segfault).

So, for a project going into production in August; if you have
the time and the talent to isolate and work around obscure bugs,
make the switch. If not, stick with 4 for now, but make sure
your code will run unchanged on 5 once stable.


Bob

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