Well, PHP4 has been officially dead for over six months.  While there are hosting companies - and even Linux distros - that package PHP4, for all intents and purposes, it's dead and won't see any further updates or fixes.  And this is a good thing.

Anyway, during our recent flurry of development on web2project, we noticed that we broke PHP4 compatibility.  While we - mostly me - initially didn't do it on purpose, it made quite a bit of sense for a number of reasons:

Today is 08/08/08.  While many in the world note this as the day of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympicsin Beijing, some of us note a more important, interesting, and ceremonial date...

PHP4 is Dead. [announcement]

There are obituaries from friends, allies, and smart people such as Brandon Savage (local DCPHP'er), Stefan Priebsch, and more people than I care to link.

I came to PHP back in early 2003.  I was just coming off a major Java project and was looking for something lighter, faster to develop, and easier to deploy.  I poked around a bit and found PHP but I really didn't sink my teeth in until I found dotProject.