Re: [gentoo-server] PHP4

[Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@fmp.com>]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 19:38 +0100, Yves Thommes wrote:
> i'm rather in a tight spot, management of course doesn't want to drop 
> the customers and either the customer doesn't have the resources to pay 
> for a migration, or maybe even the web-agency who developed the website 
> several years ago has been put out of business or <insert any business 
> reason you like> and we don't have the know-how ourselves to migrate the 
> system.

Can you be more specific about the technical issues?  What sorts of
errors or functionality losses do you see on the problem websites if you
try to run them on PHP5, or are you just noting that a 3rd party
developer has said that the sites won't run on PHP5?

This is of more than academic interest to me.  I run a professional web
hosting service and am faced with a similar problem.  A couple dozen of
my client sites are going to have to be migrated here from PHP4 to PHP5
soon, which will involve moving databases, changing DNS for them and
seeing where they break.  I wrote most of the PHP code so I should be
able to figure it out pretty easily if there are any snags.  PHP gets
about a B for being explicit and clear in emitting meaningful error
messages.

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