Dear Clients

With immediate effect, all clients are able to run PHP 4 and PHP 5 scripts side by side. Given that PHP 5 is not totally backward compatible, and with the explicit aim of not breaking existing scripts while offering something new, our technical team have setup both version side by side.

What this means to you:
- Ability to program your scripts in PHP 5 new Object Oriented Model / Features
- Improved XML support with the use of the libxml2 toolkit from xmlsoft.org. All the extensions (SAX, DOM and XSLT) now use libxml2 including the new additional extensions SimpleXML and SOAP.
- New MySQLi (MySQL Improved) extension new MySQL extension that allows you to take full advantage of the new functionality in MySQL 4.1 and later.
- Support for SQLite which does not require an SQL server and is very suitable for applications which don’t require the scalability of SQL servers
- New Extensions support


How do I use PHP 5?
In order to use PHP 5, all you need to do is to name your scripts with the extension .php5. Our servers will automatically route those scripts to the PHP 5 engine. The extension .php will continue to invoke the PHP 4 engine.


I need new functionality enabled on PHP 5.
Contact our support team. We tend to be agreeable to compile PHP with the new extensions you need.


Any other questions?
Please do contact our friendly support team either via email, tickets (http://support.sprintserve.net) or any other support means of your choice.


Happy scripting!