PHP 5 Soon Obsolete

[Toby]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

Cliff Notes? Move to PHP 7 ASAP or you'll be fucked (eventually).

True, BUT...
Many of the scripts we use in this biz are no longer supported, and even if they are, converting them to be PHP 7 compatible is a huge task.

I recently did a major project using PHP and MySQL. In that situation, since it was new from scratch, using code that is PHP 7 compatible was easy, as was using the new MySQLi standard.

Rewriting existing PHP 5.x code or converting MySQL apps to MySQLi is a completely different process. Probably easier to start over from scratch. Either way, the investment is difficult to justify given the current state of the biz.