PHP5 stability with MySQL

[raj7]

Hi. Is PHP5 developed enough to be stable compared with PHP4 with mysql? I've heard conflicting arguments for this.

Thank you in advance,

Raj

[seiretto]

There is talk of leap-frogging from PHP4 to PHP6. This could be our direction for our shared servers.

PHP5 is not as proven as version 4 and will show its flaws on a busy shared server. If you have a dedicated server then its unlikey to get hammered as on a shared machine, so PHP5 would in many cases be fine on your own server.

Hope that helps

[kgun]

PHP 4 end of life announcement

[13-Jul-2007]
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

If you develope XML driven sites, you need PHP 5 and the evolution is so fast that you have to continually upgrade to the latest versions because of increased support for the XML family of thechnologies.

And much more can be done in XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 than in the first versions. Using XInclude + XPointer + XPath you can embed (include) fragments and whole documents in your own documents.

XLink opens a whole new way of sematinc linking and transclusion. The three layers of the web, modern JavaScript (also named DOM scripting) will soon develope into "n" layers of the web with the XML family of technologies.

Last but not lest, using the improved OO features of PHP 5.* you can also write database connection classes that encapsulates the data base connection so it is possible to connect seamlessly to n different databases living on different plattforms like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase ...

[Tech Manager]

I've been using PHP 5 for years and have had excellent success on a wide variety of shared and dedicated servers. I've experienced very few problems running it with later versions of MySQL.

[kgun]

The problem is usually not the language, but the code.

[mikesmith76]

The problem is usually not the language, but the code.

Very good point. I've had a dedicated server running PHP5 / MySQL for over a year now and never experienced any problems.