<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="FAQ: Întrebãri frecvente" HREF="faq.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3" HREF="faq.migration.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Miscellaneous Questions" HREF="faq.misc.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="faq.migration.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="faq.misc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="faq.migration4" >Cap. 57. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4</A ></H1 ><P > PHP has already a long history behind him : Legendary PHP 1.0, PHP/FI, PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0. </P ><DIV CLASS="qandaset" ><DL ><DT >1. <A HREF="faq.migration4.html#faq.migration4.php34" > Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4 </A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="faq.migration4.html#faq.migration4.sessions" > Do sessions work in PHP 3? </A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="faq.migration4.html#faq.migration4.incompatible" > Incompatible functions? </A ></DT ></DL ><DIV CLASS="qandaentry" ><B ><DIV CLASS="question" ><P ><A NAME="faq.migration4.php34" ></A ><B >1. </B > Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4 </P ></DIV ></B ><DIV CLASS="answer" ><P ><B > </B > PHP 4 was designed to be as compatible with earlier versions of PHP as possible and very little functionality was broken in the process. If you're really unsure about compatibility you should install PHP 4 in a test environment and run your scripts there. </P ><P > Also see the <A HREF="migration4.html" >appropriate migration appendix</A > of this manual. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="qandaentry" ><B ><DIV CLASS="question" ><P ><A NAME="faq.migration4.sessions" ></A ><B >2. </B > Do sessions work in PHP 3? </P ></DIV ></B ><DIV CLASS="answer" ><P ><B > </B > Although <A HREF="ref.session.html" >native session support</A > didn't exist in PHP 3, there are third-party applications that did (and still do) offer session functionality. The most common method was by using <A HREF="http://phplib.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_top" >PHPLIB</A >. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="qandaentry" ><B ><DIV CLASS="question" ><P ><A NAME="faq.migration4.incompatible" ></A ><B >3. </B > Incompatible functions? </P ></DIV ></B ><DIV CLASS="answer" ><P ><B > </B > Since PHP 4 is basically a rewrite of the entire PHP engine there were very few functions that were altered and only then some of the more exotic ones. </P ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="faq.migration.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="faq.misc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="faq.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Miscellaneous Questions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >