On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 13:53 -0600, Jacob Wright wrote: > > So here's a question, if you do php contract work, how much would you > > charge to make a person's site php5-worthy? I'm sure it depends on the > > site but if you had to ballpark it what would it be? And if you don't > > believe in one-off contracting, how much are your long term maintenance > > contracts, or what would you expect a business owner to pay for an in > > house programmer? I ask both to maybe help you see our clients points > > of view, and because we'll probably need to start referring people out. > > > I also have a question. Those of you who have ported PHP 4 sites to work on > a PHP 5 box, how long did it take? Is there quite a process? I was under the > opinion that many PHP 4 apps/sites didn't need to change much or any to run > with PHP 5, only if they used a few of the less-common practices that PHP 5 > no longer supported. Maybe I'm wrong. I've ported some of my stuff from PHP > 5 back to 4 but not from 4 to 5.
I've done a couple of those. It wasn't bad. One site didn't need any change, the other need to be upgraded to a newer version of Gallery. I think part of the problem is that PHP is such a dynamic language that you really need to just try the move and see what happens. There isn't a compiler to look at the whole package and tell you what's incompatible. So there is more risk of unpredictable failures. -- Walt _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
