"Lester Caine" wrote in message news:54d73248.9030...@lsces.co.uk...
On 08/02/15 06:37, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:Hi Lester, PHP7 is proposing a LOT of shiny new features which will break muchlegacy code. So the question has to be just what is the plan regarding cross version support. I see that the general consensus is PHP5 shouldjust run? Do you mean release 5.7 or extend life of 5.6? I'm +1 for both options. Extending 5.6 life may achieved consensus. Perhaps, 2 year security support?Well I don't remember any such restriction on PHP4? Although there is still a compatibility library to emulate some later features where PHP4 did not provide them. But we are only talking about 'PHP4' being stable up to PHP5.2 and quoting periods here is irrelevant. Nobody is currently taking any notice of the fact HP5.2 and 5.3 are no longer supported and it's that the removal of features was badly managed that has created this problem. From a day to day survival point of view I have to decide what to do with currently functional sites that ARE still on PHP5.2 hosting. The bulk of the sites that have been moved to PHP5.4 still require regular work because people keep finding fault with one mobile device or another not displaying 'bootstrap3' properly which is another major upgrade path that is the MAIN reason for reworking sites and the one that prevents simple sticking plasters to hack PHP changes. I spent most of yesterday trying to get a key component of a financial site into a format that it could even be used on a mobile phone. And failed, so now I have to find another way to meet the LEGAL requirement that the customer has to comply with. So in general no I'm not talking about having to fix PHP5 code to some PHP7 compliant state, I AM talking about current PHP5 code simply working as PHP4 did into PHP5 hosting! CURRENTLY my php7 test site is running PHP5.4 live code so I don't think I'm out of line here, but if something goes in which causes my php7 test site to crash then I would prefer that to be sorted by PHP7 rather than having to upgrade to some as yet unavailable PHP5.x, although I would be more than happy if I can simply amend the live code and make both work.
Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster.
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