On Sep 19, 9:23 am, John Murtari <jmurt...@thebook.com> wrote:
> Herb <her...@mail.com> writes:
> > Why do so many hosting services only offer PHP4? That's even
> > true for Yahoo.
>
> Being at a hosting provider I can give you the exact
> reasons. There are two huge ones:
> 1) Backward compatability.
> 2) Ability to run PHP 4 & PHP 5 at the same time.
>
> #2 is probably the biggest show stopper on php 5 adoption
> by providers.

GoDaddy solved this problem somehow. You can choose (on per-directory
basis, using .htaccess files) whether *.php files are parsed using PHP
4 or PHP 5. Both PHP interpreters run as FastCGI executables.

Cheers,
NC