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?
--cro
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.
On Monday 28 August 2006 10:17, C. R. Oldham 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?
--cro
In general, Drupal should be fine with either. Personally I run it mostly on PHP 4, because my web host has that and my home server is Debian Sarge, which is PHP 4. My desktop/dev box is Debian Sid, however, which has been running PHP 5 for quite some time. The only problem is if you try playing with an XTemplate-based theme, as that breaks in PHP 5. If you're using Drupal 4.7, you shouldn't have an problems.
C. R. Oldham 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?
--cro
Drupal is presently coded to work on either PHP 4 or PHP 5.
If you choose to go with PHP 5, you will leave a significant number of Drupal users behind, as they are hosted on PHP 4 systems.
Personally, I like PHP 5 and using its OO capabilities, but I will leave the religious arguments to others. :-)
..chrisxj
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