Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4

Posted by The_Fox on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:52PM
from the wordpress.org dept.

http://wordpress.org/news/2010/07/eol-for-php4-and-mysql4/

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by woodall on Saturday July 24, 2010 @02:06AM (#1543215)

This is great news. Many applications stopped supporting PHP4 in 2008, and the last release of MYSQL 4 was in March of 2005. Supporting legacy tech isn't a bad thing, but at some point we have to stop pulling plows with mules.

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by robryan on Saturday July 24, 2010 @01:52AM (#1543197)

Wonder if this will improve the experience hacking the code to customise things, which has always been very frustrating.

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by shod on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:55AM (#1543747)

Hacking WordPress is frustrating because it's so poorly engineered, and that won't change for the foreseeable future. It's a sprawling mess of Spaghetti code that's indecipherable without the WordPress Codex and Google Search. But despite all my rage, clients keep asking for it, and it keeps paying my bills.

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by pragmar on Saturday July 24, 2010 @12:32PM (#1543939)

I think you struck on an important point. For clients Wordpress is a godsend. If you quit contracting or the client needs to change developers for one of a thousand reasons there's a massive pool of talent that can step right in and make adjustments. I've taken over Wordpress sites and the learning curve is almost flat (save a few weird plugins). Anyways, it's a whole lot better of a situation for clients, developers and productivity in general than the days when everyone had a custom framework that solved the same basic CMS issue.

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by cdawzrd on Saturday July 24, 2010 @03:56PM (#1544268)

Is there another CMS that has the same featureset and the same extensibility? I've tried a few, but keep coming back to Wordpress, even though it is annoying and a resource hog. It's too easy to extend, and it has most of the stuff I need built in to the core (as of 3.0 at least). I wish there were an alternative platform that ran on Python and Sqlite with the same polish in terms of features and ease-of-use, but I haven't found one yet (correct me if I'm wrong!)

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by robryan on Saturday July 24, 2010 @01:43PM (#1544059)

Yeah, been working with it for quiet some time on and off and still regularly need to search to find out where a function may be being called from.

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Re:Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 by wenbert on Saturday July 24, 2010 @02:44AM (#1543267)

I am not one of the biggest fans of Wordpress but after working with Wordpress 3 I was surprised how easy it was to fully develop a theme. The dynamic menus for me where one of the biggest time-savers for me. I've had so many problems with clients wanting different stuff on the main menu.

I sub-contract quick Wordpress jobs, code on my pet-projects during my free time and work on my day-job. So any improvements on Wordpress affects a lot of my routine - I can do more stuff :D

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