bad... why only php 5 ?.........

PHP4 is no longer supported by PHP, and is older, slower and more insecure than PHP5.

Beyond that, this mod is a port of the vB4 version, and PHP5 is a requirement of vB4. Sorry :(


Fillip

hmm, intretesting, because year ago my server admins say me that its not great to upgrate to php5 because its slowly and not secure :-)

PHP5 has matured a lot over a year mate :)
PHP 5.2 is incredibly fast and stable, and all good hosting providers have, or offer, upgrades to this version.

PHP 5.3, however, is strongly not recommended at this point in time. A lot of scripts still use code that makes PHP 5.3 fill the page up with error notices (which are like errors, only they don't stop the script from working).

I can of course not guarantee that you don't have some really ancient code on your server that won't work with PHP 5.2, but I'm 99% certain upgrading to 5.2 will be fine :)

about upgrading, its my own server and its not problem to request upgrade at any time, but today I specialy again consulted with my admin and it not recomment to upgrade because, yes, like you already wrote - other scripts can begin to bug... and if current configuration is stable, its not recomended to upgrate also...

and about php5 is faster he say that "maybe at some scripts that use some new functions"

do you use much new php5 functions at the vbshout ? is it difficult to make vbsout php4 compatible?

I'm not entirely sure if I use many PHP5 functions, because vB4 requires PHP5 and as such I didn't think too much about what functions I used.

The odds of scripts breaking from PHP4 -> PHP5 is very small, though, and for the most part they can be hid via error_reporting() changes.

Rolling back PHP isn't much more difficult than upgrading, so I would suggest you upgrade and if you start having problems, you can roll back.

maybe best idea try to install vbsout and maybe will work?) i have intermediate knolage of php and can review code and try to understand parts where its does not work.. and we will make some changes to make it mork with php4 and php5 ?

The main parts that's preventing it from working on PHP4 is the scope keywords in shoutbox.php - but I don't guarantee that's all.

At any rate, I like the ability to take advantage of PHP5's functions so I don't think I'll be making a vBShout version to support a PHP version that not even PHP themselves support anymore :p

resonable...
so far will try ti use MGC Chatbox Evo.... or maybe best idea to install vbshout 2.5.0 what do you think? :-)

Totally up to yourself. Neither of those have anywhere near the number of features vBShout 5.0 though.

Personally i would recommend trying to upgrade to PHP v5, if it causes problems, it's very simple to roll back to v4, and you'll have to update to PHP v5 eventually. Most places no longer support v4 - including the PHP developers, and indeed the new versions of vBulletin.

Your call though.

Iain