Upgrading to PHP 5 with Style

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Presented by:	Aaron Wormus
Date:	May 17, 13:45 - 14:45
Location:	Track #1

What is the best way to migrate my legacy application to PHP 5? “Installing PHP5 and seeing what breaks” won't impress a project manager who is looking to upgrade a mission critical financial application with over 40 often-customized deployments.

In this session, we will discuss how to move from PHP 4 to PHP 5 with style. The process involves not just making your application function under PHP 5, but examining your existing framework, determining the potential points of failure, and then creating a strategy which replaces deprecated technology (magic_quotes/string escaping) with current technologies (ext/filter,PDO), and ensures platform stability through unit testing.

We also discuss issues revolving around product life cycles, and how to sell the idea of upgrading a large applications to PHP 5 to company management, and using a product upgrade to increase the stability and functionality of your product.