Support for PHP 4 to be discontinued - implications for Dreamweaver

Question

Today (13 July 2007) is the third anniversary of the release
of PHP 5.
To mark this occasion, the PHP development team has announced
that
support for PHP 4, except for critical security fixes, will
be
discontinued on 31 December. Furthermore, even critical
security fixes
for PHP 4 will cease on 8 August 2008 (8/8/08). You are urged
to move to
PHP 5.2 as soon as practicable.
As far as PHP code generated by Dreamweaver MX 2004, DW8, and
DW CS3 is
concerned, this change will have NO effect. The code runs
without
problem on PHP 5.2, and should continue to run even when PHP
6 is
eventually released.
Code generated by Dreamweaver MX should be upgraded to run on
PHP 5.2,
as it uses deprecated predefined variables, such as
$HTTP_POST_VARS
(instead of $_POST). Although PHP 5.2 can be configured to
support the
deprecated variables, they will NOT be supported in PHP 6, so
it's a
good idea to start planning ahead.
If you're on shared hosting, the likelihood is that your
server still
runs PHP 4. Now is the time to start pressuring your hosting
company to
commit to upgrade to PHP 5.2. There's no need to panic,
because there
will be security patches for another year; but after that,
any host
still running PHP 4 will leave you potentially open to
security risks.
A lot of people worry that switching from PHP 4 to PHP 5 will
result in
broken sites. For the vast majority of people, it won't. When
I switched
three years ago, I didn't need to change a single line of
code. The only
people who are likely to face problems are those using very
old code or
object-oriented PHP.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Answer 1

Yes OHS (Oracle HTTP Server) comes with PHP pre-installed and ready to use. Refer following for details:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B32110_01/web.1013/b28948/php.htm#BABIGCFB
Thanks
Shail