<story><title>PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life</title><url>https://hackertarget.com/php-end-of-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>Yeah, yeah. Go tell that to my 10x php self-taught guy who&amp;#x27;s still running php 5.4 on a windows server 2003 in a wamp installation. He upgraded the bundled mysql with mariadb last year by dropping the executable in the folder (edit: just checked out, and the drop-in has been reverted back to mysql 5.0 because the upgrade path is impossible because apache 2.2).&lt;p&gt;And of course this in-house guru for anything that happens on a screen patiently overwrites hacked 1.6 joomla installations by copying over an old copy and doesn&amp;#x27;t bother updating the passwords.&lt;p&gt;I am in the process of dockerizing almost everything in sight. There&amp;#x27;s pain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Besides the &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#x27;t bother updating the passwords&amp;quot; point, this sort of &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s old so let&amp;#x27;s change it&amp;quot; attitude is unfortunately so pervasive in the software industry and I find it massively irritating because it&amp;#x27;s the same reason why a lot of software has gotten increasingly unstable over time. Instead of making only fixes and bringing a platform towards maturity they do the exact opposite, adding plenty of new bugs and breaking changes.&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the majority of people who need PHP (and technology in general...) have far more important things to do with their time than incessant trendchasing.&lt;p&gt;The saying about &amp;quot;known unknowns&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;unknown unknowns&amp;quot; is worth remembering too. The fact that a system has stayed working for over a decade should be enough to tell you that its creators did something right.&lt;p&gt;(I am in the process of restoring an 80-year-old refrigerator. ;-)</text></comment>
<story><title>PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life</title><url>https://hackertarget.com/php-end-of-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>Yeah, yeah. Go tell that to my 10x php self-taught guy who&amp;#x27;s still running php 5.4 on a windows server 2003 in a wamp installation. He upgraded the bundled mysql with mariadb last year by dropping the executable in the folder (edit: just checked out, and the drop-in has been reverted back to mysql 5.0 because the upgrade path is impossible because apache 2.2).&lt;p&gt;And of course this in-house guru for anything that happens on a screen patiently overwrites hacked 1.6 joomla installations by copying over an old copy and doesn&amp;#x27;t bother updating the passwords.&lt;p&gt;I am in the process of dockerizing almost everything in sight. There&amp;#x27;s pain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bearburger</author><text>I feel your pain. Yesterday client&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;wp developer&amp;quot; asked me to downgrade from 7.2 to 5.6 because &amp;quot;7.x is not stable enough&amp;quot;.</text></comment>