I upgraded to PHP 5 ages ago :p. I'm currently on PHP 5.2.6 & MySQL 5.0.58.

All I did was floor(PHP 5.2.6) and that is how I have 5.2.5 on my server.

:up:

Sometimes they are not lazy but don't want to help thousands of people fix their code for php4 to 5 and mysql 4 to 5.

Well, I guess that's a form of lazy too. :erm:

-Raymond

I've been running PHP 5.x for more than a year now.

I've not upgraded as on shared hosting, but my hosting company says I can use php5 by adding .php5 as the extension.

I'm unsure what I'd have to do, example does all hacks php files work the same way (.php5) & would this make some hacks not work properly because they are called for as .php?

reason above is why I have not upgraded to php5.

Renaming all files to .php5 will break vBulletin (although this can be solved), but also will break most modifications like you already guessed.

Can't you just choose to have the .php5 extension when downloading vBulletin and all be fine?

That will only work without problems on a first installation. Also 99% of the modifications do not handle this correctly.

I don't upgrade my PHP, never have.

However I pay my hosting company to make sure that the latest versions of all the server software are running on my machine so never had a problem.

On my localhost, I just use wampserver so upgrade it to the latest version via a Windows double-click install and I get updated Apache, PHP and MySQL in about 15 seconds.