Learning from my own mistakes
I was looking for a hosting provider for yourclients.co.uk and I decided to go with UK based namesco.co.uk.
Everything was fine for the first 10 minutes - they do both PHP4 and PHP5, and MySQL5.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
After signing up for the account and receiving my details I run phpinfo(); and it states: PHP4.4.1
What?
Where’s my PHP5?
After a quick email to support@ I received an answer that to run PHP5 scripts the files need to have .php5 extensions.
That’s obviously rubbish and I need to find another host…
Or do I?
My system will run off the main index.php acting as a PageController, so effectively no other files will be “ran”.
What I should be able to do is to rename my index.php to index.php5 and… That’s it!
I hope that works, but I don’t see a reason it shouldn’t, after all when the file is executed it already knows which version of the interpreter to use.
So - 1:0 for me, my system will work even on not-optimal hosting configurations 