Re: [PHP] how old is this version of PHP?

Larry Garfield wrote:
> 5.2.9 was released in February of 2009.  5.2 is completely retired and out of
> support.  5.3 is on security-only life-support.  5.4 is the legacy stable release.
>
> Yes, 5.2.9 IS that old. :-)  Really, get a host that has made it into this
> decade.  (GoDaddy apparently doesn't meet that qualification.) You're doing
> clients a disservice by allowing them to run such an ancient and unsupported
> version.

While the statements are correct, many users are not in a position to move from 
their currently working systems to even 5.3 let alone 5.4. There is still a lot 
of legacy code that unless a few more people step up and help bring it forward 
for the many - non programming - users who are stuck with legacy applications, 
they will remain requiring 5.2 to run. ISPs got caught out when they arbitrarily 
moved accounts forward, and GoDaddy have even been caught by that, so 
maintaining a LTS version of PHP5.2 is the lesser evil ... Windows 2000 is 
supposed to be dead, but *I* still have sites reliant on it because the code and 
hardware is unsupported in even XP. Saying something is dead only works if there 
is an affordable way of moving forward ;)

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