The PHP Group has announced the End of Life of PHP 4 — at last! The announcement reads:
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.
While PHP 4 is a crufty scripting language, PHP 5 is quite nice programming language with good support for database access, web services, XML parsing,
