Despite being released 3 years ago PHP 5 has struggled to gain market share. It’s been a vicious cycle of:

• Hosting companies holding off because a few applications still require PHP 4
• Applications continuing to support PHP 4 rather than risk loosing market share
• Hosting companies feeling no pressure to upgrade because applications still support PHP 4

Today I came across GoPHP5. The group is made up of projects and hosting companies pushing to make PHP 5.2 the minimum version by February 2008. Combined with the PHP Group ending support for PHP 4 at the end of this year I’m hopeful that we’ll soon be able to say goodbye to PHP 4.