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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.x Documentend End Of Life Dates
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Adam Harvey wrote:
> Thoughts? (Do we even want to auto-fill this from $OLDRELEASES, or
> would we rather have a manual array?) Specific notes on
> vulnerabilities to add to branches? Better versions of the copy in the
> initial blurb?

A little academic now, but I was convinced that 5.1 had some more official 
releases? 5.1.6 had a number of bugs that prevent Firebird/Interbase working and 
we had 2.1.7 running which fixed the problem. Was that never released 
officially? Academic as I say, and everything was moved to 5.2 quite quickly as 
it rolled out without any problems and removed some of the problems created by 
5.1 itself - such as the date code clashes ;)

Can I make a request for an additional column which links to the relevant 
migration guide. That would at least be a start, but I'm currently trying to 
work through 5.3 and 5.4 migration guides to see if they DO have fixes for the 
'problems' that are coming up on porting code from PHP5.2 ...

The statement "Most improvements in PHP 5.3.x have no impact on existing code." 
should perhaps be augmented with a least some reference to ensuring that the 
.ini settings are compatible with PHP5.2 code? Is there a document that shows 
what settings .ini should have to maintain compatibility? I could not find 
anything suitable although everything is documented somewhere.

I think one thing that is preventing many ISP's switching is the removal of 
register_globals ? Heck *I* still have code which will not work without 
register_globals and the time it would take to rework that code is just another 
job I don't have time for :( The fact that 5.3 still supports this is given as 
the reason for not switching to 5.4 just yet. Not a problem for this list 
perhaps, but many of the end users probably have no idea how to fix this 
particular problem as they are using third part code that relies on it?

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