David,

Thanks for the write up on __autoload!  I didn't know that function 
existed.  I create PHP 4 classes in separate files and use a standard 
naming convention of class.[class name].php .  So, that might work well 
for me.

I'm still using PHP 4.3.10 but am interested in moving to 5(.2?).  The 
one big thing that's stopping me is not knowing what will break when I 
move from 4 to 5.  I have a bunch of sites hosted using PHP 4 but if I 
upgrade to PHP 5, I'm afraid I'll break everyone's site.  For example, I 
know mysqli is used in PHP 5 but have worked on a site with PHP 5 where 
the "normal" mysql functions were still available.  How'd they do that?  
That would make switching to 5 easier.

I have been doing OOP PHP professionally / on the side for a while.  
I've created a decent sized CMS (content management system) from scratch 
for an online newspaper and have also developed a mailing list 
management app.

So, I would be interested in seeing a list of things that have changed 
between 4 and 5 (like using mysqli instead of mysql and which version of 
mysql server is required to use mysqli, list of new functions, etc) and 
how to upgrade PHP apps from 4 to 5.

Best regards,
Jim
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