[PHPwestoz] any opinions on moving to php5?

[moosecat at moosecat.com.au]

You should find all you need to know here

http://www.zend.com/php5/migration.php

I have used the old MySQL function with PHP5 on my laptop & all seems OK -
however....  I believe MySQLi [i - improved] is much better & is discussed in
the above link.

Although I may have to have leave this list as I have just moved overseas....
:(

Regards

Sean
MooseCat

Quoting Sol <sol at terminus.net.au>:

>
> > Having migrated some of my applications to PHP5, I can reassure you by
> > saying that PHP5 is mostly backward-compatible with PHP4's OO syntax.
> > One of the main differences lie not in the OO syntax, but in a few
> > modules and functions, such as mysql functions, which must all be
> > migrated to "mysqli". To correctly write PHP5 OO code, you'll need to
> > modify your existing classes to take advantage of the many new features
> > that are available, but overall the migration is quite straight-forward.
> >
> > Don't hesitate to write about some specific problems you may encounter.
>
> Thanks Nicolas, this is reassuring. I think I'll look into installing on
> my laptop and start getting familiar with php5 and OO coding (which I
> still don't fully 'get' ATM) for a month or two before installing it on
> servers that I'm running. It'll give me time to get familiar with the
> "little problems".
>
> Thanks; sol
>
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
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