Now I know this will get moved but I want to ask it anyway. There was a thread where a TC user asked if thee was any chance of his server being updated with PHP 5. He was told that this would not happen becase PHP 5 would break a lot of scripts. Today, for the first time in a while, I checked my servers PHP version and found it had been updated to PHP 4.4.1! Now I find it funny that TC wont update to PHP 5 as it <b>MIGHT</b> stop some older scripts from working but they will happily update to PHP 4.4.1 despite the fact it has a known bug that a lot of scripts have had to release patch files to fix, my own script included. In fact this bug can cause web browser to hang and in some cases crash whilst the scripts are trying to execute. If it causes the browsers to hang whats it doing to the servers?<br /><br /></rant><!--content-->
See <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24946" target="_blank">http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...showtopic=24946</a> for the notification, and testing done before we upgraded <br /><br />The experience with PHP 5 is that it breaks a lot more scripts. Version 4.4 has been tested on our severs (as described in the above link), and Version 4.4.1 is the stable release from PHP.<!--content-->
PHP crashing a browser??? <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /><br />That's a new one to me...<br /><br />Edit: forget the previous message, I don't want to go into any arguments about your rant, carbonize <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br />By the way, is the patch you had to release one that will not be needed when PHP 4.4.2 comes out or is it something that will always have to be used from now on?<!--content-->
In my opinion it is an intelligent enough question (and yes it is a question). They said they would not update to PHP 5 as it would require people to update their scripts but they will update to PHP 4.4 which also requires people to update their scripts and can cause browsers to hang and possible the server also. I am not going to start repeating myself nor start defending my opinion as I would rather this thread stuck to it's subject.<!--content-->
The servers were upgraded to PHP 4.4 for security reasons. If scripts broke that could not be helped. Security is the main concern and the reason the servers were updated.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The servers were upgraded to PHP 4.4 for security reasons. If scripts broke that could not be helped. Security is the main concern and the reason the servers were updated.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br />That's why I posted the original message <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br />It would be an inteligent question enough question if you didn't know the reasons for the upgrade. As I already said in some other threads, I would also upgrade to PHP 5 (because I'm a tech freak) but TCH's decision is totally valid. If they can avoid breaking their clients' scripts, then they avoid it. In this case, they couldn't. It's as simple as that.<!--content-->
The question is intelligent because I was asking why they didn't just go upto PHP 5 given that people would have to patch/upgrade their scripts with this upgrade anyway and PHP 5 is less likely to hang on their servers and crash web browsers.<!--content-->
I was wondering why it seemed to now take forever for my site to load now.<!--content-->
Your site loads quickly for me.<!--content-->
Don纾
See <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24946" target="_blank">http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...showtopic=24946</a> for the notification, and testing done before we upgraded <br /><br />The experience with PHP 5 is that it breaks a lot more scripts. Version 4.4 has been tested on our severs (as described in the above link), and Version 4.4.1 is the stable release from PHP.<!--content-->
PHP crashing a browser??? <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /><br />That's a new one to me...<br /><br />Edit: forget the previous message, I don't want to go into any arguments about your rant, carbonize <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br />By the way, is the patch you had to release one that will not be needed when PHP 4.4.2 comes out or is it something that will always have to be used from now on?<!--content-->In my opinion it is an intelligent enough question (and yes it is a question). They said they would not update to PHP 5 as it would require people to update their scripts but they will update to PHP 4.4 which also requires people to update their scripts and can cause browsers to hang and possible the server also. I am not going to start repeating myself nor start defending my opinion as I would rather this thread stuck to it's subject.<!--content-->
The servers were upgraded to PHP 4.4 for security reasons. If scripts broke that could not be helped. Security is the main concern and the reason the servers were updated.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The servers were upgraded to PHP 4.4 for security reasons. If scripts broke that could not be helped. Security is the main concern and the reason the servers were updated.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br />That's why I posted the original message <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br />It would be an inteligent question enough question if you didn't know the reasons for the upgrade. As I already said in some other threads, I would also upgrade to PHP 5 (because I'm a tech freak) but TCH's decision is totally valid. If they can avoid breaking their clients' scripts, then they avoid it. In this case, they couldn't. It's as simple as that.<!--content-->The question is intelligent because I was asking why they didn't just go upto PHP 5 given that people would have to patch/upgrade their scripts with this upgrade anyway and PHP 5 is less likely to hang on their servers and crash web browsers.<!--content-->
I was wondering why it seemed to now take forever for my site to load now.<!--content-->
Your site loads quickly for me.<!--content-->
Don纾