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Originally Posted by Boofo

I sure wish you guys weren't PHP 4 haters.

Someone has to be, otherwise we'll still be having this discussion when PHP20 comes out. PHP4 is a dead language. It has been officially "end of lifed" since the end of last year.

It's time we started exerting pressure as a community on all those hosting companies who refuse to upgrade, by voting with our feet. There are plenty of good hosts who do provide PHP5, and would be more than happy to take your business.

However, in this case the usual excuse that "my host doesn't support it" doesn't fly, as this tool is purely for use on local development machines, where it is up to you what version you run. Even if you still need to code to PHP4 standards, there's no reason you can't run PHP5. Just don't use any of the new features in your code.

If you have to have PHP4 available for testing, just run XAMPP, which has a neat little button that lets you switch between 4 and 5.

-- hugh