On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:02:53AM +0100, Rabus wrote:
BTW, as I'm not into the project in general, what are/were your reasons against sessions, if any?
First of all, the PHP3 compatibility. We try to keep the code PHP3 compatible as far as possible so we cannot take session support as a requirement of phpMyAdmin. But imho it'll be great to use sessions. This should lower down the traffic a lot. I even thought about a session-equivalent to the cookie authentification mode.
It would be interesting to see how many people are still using PHP3... Found only stats for php alone (for example: http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200212/apachemods.html ), nothing comparing php3 and php4.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23067 shows that there are about 10% people downloading the archive with php3 file endings, but does it really mean something? I also usualy get the "php3" version, just to be able to update easily with a cvs update...
Should we drop php3 support ? PHP4 is already 2 years old now :)
regards, Olivier