And this is good news. I’ve quite regularly on this weblog called for a better adoption for PHP5. PHP5 is in just about every aspect better than PHP4. Unfortunately adoption has not been very good in the past. It was a bit of a chicken/egg situation, where hosting providers didn’t want the hassle of upgrading…
It seems, finally, after 3 year and a bit of having PHP5 available, the mass of community developers is starting to see the light. There is a community effort under way to move big projects over to PHP5-only. This may finally be the finishing blow to that endless PHP4 fighting. PHP4 is bad, it’s outdated,…
Yet another proof today of the poor adoption of PHP5 in the developer community: Results from a PHPMagazine poll give a whopping 78.5% votes for CakePHP as best PHP Framework, with the runner up being Symfony with 10.9% of the votes. A scary result, when you think that CakePHP is still a PHP4 framework, and…
Ilia wonders why people are not using PHP5. A good question, which I even asked of the Joomla! developers a while ago. The answer from Joomla! was predictable and logical: Hosting providers have not adopted PHP5 enough to warrant the switch as of now. Joomla! 2.0 will probably be PHP5, but not earlier. According to…