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Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh

Reputation: 464

PHP 5.6 isn't supported with security, So Why PHP 5.6 is not deprecated yet?

PHP 5.6 is the past end of life and isn't supported with security updates.

I've been doing web development for a little over a year and started learning and working with PHP 6 months now (part-time, still doing my masters).

Every day there are changes or modification I have to do so get active work.

My latest project is building a web platform I've been doing web development for a little over a year and started learning and working with PHP 7 months now (part-time, still doing my masters).

There are many problems with PHP 5.6 and previous versions.

My latest project is building a web platform (from scratch) for a startup that pairs people up, but progress has been slow. I've been working on this part-time for months, learning as I go. Now the startup recently hired a remote part-time PHP expert to help speed things up. This new guy took one look at my code, said it was bad and messy, and said he will re-do everything from scratch himself, in under a week. The startup basically just said to roll with it and continue on once the code is in. I'm afraid that I will be replaced in a heartbeat here, and that the past 6 months of learning PHP was for nothing.

So Why PHP 5.6 is not deprecated yet?

Any advice or tips on how to be a better programmer in PHP?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1037

Answers (1)

Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh

Reputation: 464

Because most of the products are still work with it and build on it. just think what will happen if PHP 5.6 stopped working. A lot of websites will be stopped working including many government websites. well, government websites usually prefer java, but still, there will be some which support PHP. There is a lot of product based company whose big projects are made on PHP 5.6 and hiring new employees to recode the whole project in PHP 7 is a big mess and cost-effective.

Upvotes: 1

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