hehe more like when will I be forced to upgrade.. I've wanted to do it for a long time.. but feared clients broken scripts and the subsequent whining. At least now with php4 dieing I get to have a damn good reason to push the issue.
Just wondered what kind of time line cpanel is looking at for removing it entirely also.
You don't need to worry about client broken scripts ....
I have personally been using PHP 5 since it's earliest Beta release 4 years ago
and have had it in full production use for nearly 3 years and after working
with hundred of programs on thousands of servers for tens of thousands
of clients in all this time, I can tell you first hand that you don't have
much to worry about upgrading to PHP 5.
The reports of compatibility issues of PHP 4 to PHP 5 are over inflated
and most of those reports are just flat wrong as nearly every program
out there old or new will work perfectly on PHP 5 without modification.
Some of the confusion about that was probably cast down from people
confusing MySQL 5 with PHP 5. Unlike PHP 5, which doesn't have really
any major compatiblity issues, MySQL does in fact have some significant
issues in it's newest versions which requires program modifications.
If you need any help getting updated to the present though, I offer
you my hand in assistance.