Testing transfer of PHP4 to PHP5
Day 13. the PHP development team 7.2007 announced the end of support for PHP4. Support for this programme was provided by the end of 2007 and critical patches will be available through August 2008. In connection with this information ceased to be offered our webhostingový program Linux Plus with support for PHP4. For these reasons, we recommend that for existing customers program Linux Plus go completely free of charge to the higher option Linux, PHP5 with support for PHP5.
In souvisloti with the neposkytovanou support from the development team, there is a certain rizko possible assault presentations that run on this version. For the higher version of PHP5 are periodic adjustments and improvements.
Ability to test individual pages
On our servers, you now have a new option simply to test their pages with PHP5, everything is done via port 8080. It says Port together with a colon immediately after the domain name, for example:
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PHP4
Customer with the domain www.phpwebhosting.eu wants to test whether the page is running in PHP4: http://www.phpwebhosting.eu/info.php.
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PHP5
To test the PHP5 port 8080 in the url, writes as follows: http://www.phpwebhosting.eu:8080/info.php.
Page info. php in this case calls the phpinfo, so after the call is immediately evident that port 8080 is his page is processed using PHP5.
Important notice
This method is suitable for testing individual pages, rather than the entire site. If the test page, clicks on a link, then call again the standard port 80, a version with PHP4.
A list of the transition from PHP4 incompatibilities view on PHP5, zde