Official position: Drupal 6 core runs on PHP 4. Contribs are at their
discretion to decide what they support. Drupal 7 and its contribs will
require PHP 5.2 or higher.
My personal position: The host in question will likely be deservedly out
of business soon. Seriously, PHP 5 is not hard to support. It's been 3
years since the developer community officially abandoned PHP 4 and 2
since the PHP internals team did so. PHP 4 is getting no security
updates whatsoever, and there are known, documented security holes in it
that will not be addressed.
If your client is too cheap to get a host that pays attention to the
past 6 years and at least pretends to care about security, then frankly
I'd question if they're too cheap to pay you for the work. It's not
like cheap PHP 5 hosts are hard to find.
--Larry Garfield
On 6/14/10 1:09 PM, Domenic Santangelo wrote:
Hypothetically, if a client wanted you to build a Drupal site (complexity of
say, 2, where 10 is economist.com) and they insisted on a specific host -- and
this host only supports php4, what would you tell them? So far I've got,
-Core will work but many contribs will not (filefield, date, ubercart, etc)
-Prepare for added development time that you wouldn't have to otherwise pay for
-???
What would you say, hypothetically? Any official stance on php4 from d.o?
Thanks,
-D
