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GoPHP5 initiative encourages developers and hosting providers to drop PHP 4 from February 5th 2008 and support at least PHP 5.2 from then on.

PHP 5 has many new and improved features such as a better object-oriented model, improved XML processing, WebService, and database access APIs etc. However, many of the shared hosting sites support only PHP 4, and that makes difficult for many projects and users to exploit the new features of PHP 5.

This is of course a very welcomed initiative, but not really big thing for our team though. Right from the beginning, we did not plan any support for PHP 4 in our DIY Framework. We felt that the new features by far outweighed the need for legacy support. But for those of you who had similar thoughts, it's the best timing to move on to PHP 5!