On 29/08/06, C. R. Oldham cro@ncbt.org wrote:
Greetings,
I was a PHP user from way, way back when it was still known as PHP/Fi. Various things have taken me away from it, but I am now going to migrate some of my work to Drupal.
I am having trouble making the choice between PHP 4 and PHP 5. I use Debian, but often roll my own packages or use www.backports.org. Can someone with more recent experience than I comment on what pitfalls I might face if I choose 5?
As a Debian user I would just pick the standard PHP4 package for simplicity. I would only bother with PHP5 if I wanted to do other dev work that needed it (eg anything OO or XSLT based).
Contrib module problems seem a little more prevalent on PHP5 - but that could just be my warped view of things :)
There is one (or maybe two?) XSLT based module that needs PHP5, but thats the only one I've stumbled across.