: Where to find PHP version usage stats? My original question was: what percentage of sites are using php 5.4.x? (As it has some very interesting new features.) With secondary questions like how
My original question was: what percentage of sites are using php 5.4.x? (As it has some very interesting new features.) With secondary questions like how many of the cheap web hosting places have upgraded, which versions of the linux distros include it, etc.
But I'm coming up blanks. php.net/usage.php stops at July 2007, and the nexen.net website seems to have stopped in 2008. At SecuritySpace they only list the web servers, not php versions. The TIOBE link isn't what I'm after (it doesn't -- and couldn't -- break down by version number).
I thought php.net might show download numbers, but I cannot see them anywhere.
I kind of answered the distro question, but it requires a lot of clicking around at distrowatch.com. E.g. I see here that Ubuntu offers php 5.4.6 in the latest snapshot, but the latest release (Ubuntu 12.04) has 5.3.10.
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You may find w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all of interest. As far as your secondary question that's a little harder to answer. With any new version of a language, the transition is slow. As you can see from this website, 5.2 is more widely used than any other version of PHP5. This is typical because of the resources required to check existing code against a new version. It often seems "cheaper" to leave the code alone until you're forced to make the transition (support for the language version ceases). For example Python recently announced that support for Python2 will be ceasing so we can probably expect to see a massive exodus from version 2 to version 3 over the next several months/years.
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