On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Charles Kavanagh wrote:The issue in my mind is one of portability. It would be nice, as a developer working in PHP, to be able to rely on functionality like encryption (and other unrelated goodies) being available on Joe User's $5/month webhost who don't go around installing fancy packages.
Get a better webhost. If you want to use PHP's more advanced (and less used) extensions you need to pick a better host.
Perhaps you're not seeing my point, or perhaps you don't care about users? I speak as a developer, not as some guy with a crap webhost, and my concern is that I would like to write applications that many people can run, not just those who take out a loan against their house to pay for webhosting. Many other developers will feel the same way as me.
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