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Do you have any plans to support PHP 5.x.x ?

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Bartosz Lis	Friday 15 October 2004 1:23:23 am I'm going to change my Red Hat Linux server into PLD Linux (see: http://www.pld-linux.org ), but recently PLD shifted its PHP version from 4.3 to 5.0. I think, many other Linux distributions are going to do PHP version shift, too. Please, tell about your plans, especially time schedule.
Paul Forsyth	Friday 15 October 2004 4:15:03 am Read the faq: http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/faq/general/does_ez_publish_run_on_php_5 paul
Frederik Holljen	Friday 15 October 2004 7:14:13 am I can add that we will not port eZ publish to php 5 before we are 110% certain that PHP 5 can handle it. If we port too early the product will be useless until PHP 5 catches up (which can be some months..a year.. several years..)
orlando gall	Thursday 09 December 2004 9:54:43 am >>I can add that we will not port eZ publish to php 5 before we are 110% certain that PHP 5 can handle it. If we >>port too early the product will be useless until PHP 5 catches up (which can be some months..a year.. several >>years..) I don't understand this reply. As PHP5 is now stable and official, you can't think php5 will "catch up" to support old features of PHP4 that have been corrected ... Do you doubt PHP 5 is able to handle eZpublish ??? Of course they are things to adapt but this is clearly the object of a port !
Frederik Holljen	Friday 10 December 2004 1:25:57 am The key here is that there is a difference between stable and stable. Even though PHP 5.x is out and declared stable, it doesn't mean that it is as stable and mature as the PHP 4.x branch. eZ publish is huge application which pushes the limits of PHP. Also, our users expect eZ publish to be a reliable and stable platform for their web sites. Therefore, we need to know, for certain, that PHP 5 is up to the task before we port. Currently around 1% of the PHP community uses PHP 5 in production environments. The PHP team is still ironing out issues related to the large rewrite PHP has undergone. In other words: it is not ready yet.