php4 and php5 Usage Statistics

[David]

I was trying to find some stats on availability and usage of php5 on servers. I would love to stop developing in php4 and move forward with php5 in future releases. Can anyone find any 2009 stats about php usage and availability?

[bruleo]

No stats, but I just switched several of my sites to use php5. It does offer increased functionality, so I agree that php5 would be the way to go. On a side note, my PR facility never used to work with php4 and I thought it was because the host was blocked, but as soon as I switched to php5, it started working.

I think most hosts worth their salt, would at least offer a facility to switch php versions.

Bruce.

[Lazer558]

My host (easyspace) has php version 4.3.9. on shared hosting with no (published) plans to upgrade.
Mike

[James]

Every server I manage has now got php5 as main and php4 as optonal.


4 is old and its time has come and gone with 6 on the horizon

[shadav]

my server's using PHP version 5.2.9 and i've got all the different versions of phpLD running on it
v2 on up to v3.4 and link bid 3.2