WordPress Bids Farewell to PHP 4 and MySQL 4

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1. quicoto (39 comments.) says:

   7/25/2010 at 9:27 am

   Some people says Automattic is nuts to force the users upgrade their servers.

   I think it’s ok. Most of shared hostings already have PHP 5.2 and Mysql 5
2. Kirk M (67 comments.) says:

   7/25/2010 at 10:32 am

   I have to commend WordPress for supporting PHP 4 and MySQL 4 for so long. Far longer than they had to in my opinion although I can understand why. People can be awful stubborn about upgrading anything even when something has been deprecated for nearly two years. I often help those who are having troubles with their WP installs but I finally had to draw the line for those are still running old versions who can’t understand why the newest versions of a plugin doesn’t work with their install and who still refuse to upgrade. I actually had someone contact me who was still running WP 2.1.

   Here’s to a new generation of state of the art WordPress.
3. Costin Lucian (1 comments.) says:

   7/25/2010 at 11:58 am

   it’s about time wordpress moves on
4. Andrew @ Blogging Guide (86 comments.) says:

   7/25/2010 at 7:35 pm

   I agree with Costin. If the change is for the better, then move one…
5. Skills2Earn (1 comments.) says:

   7/26/2010 at 2:08 pm

   I think wordpress decision is great, and it wont have any damage as most of the people are already using php 5 and mysql 5.
6. Robert Pendleton (3 comments.) says:

   7/26/2010 at 10:14 pm

   It is a really revolution for WordPress. It seems this shift may impose leverage on WordPress users and Internet development. Most of developers are using PHP 5 and My SQL 5 as well.
7. Sam @ Dressrail (1 comments.) says:

   7/27/2010 at 5:46 am

   My hosting provider has upgraded their PHP and MySQL versions on a constant basis, although this affects some parts of my code, the PHP communities around the web have always been there to sort the problem out, Will the upgrade affect older plugins that rely heavily on PHP4? I guess the authors of the plugins will have to answer that!!
   • quicoto (39 comments.) says:

     7/27/2010 at 9:37 am

     Most of the plugin developers are already using PHP 5 functions
8. Dave Doolin (25 comments.) says:

   8/9/2011 at 3:39 pm

   As a developer writing in mid-2011, I need the the capabilities of 5.3 to keep my skills current with what developers in competing languages and frameworks are using. Sure, I get that users don’t care, and it costs hosting companies money to upgrade, but not keeping up with current technology affects my paycheck. Now, according to Wikipedia, PHP 5.2 is two years old, and no longer supported. WP is in a great position to “encourage” the move to PHP 5.3.

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