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Didn't PHP 5 stop getting security updates more six or seven years ago?

I guess depending on the app that might not really matter, but that seems like it could be an issue at some point.



There's an entire ecosystem of companies doing support and proprietary security patches and even framework-bearing polyfills for php 5. So much of the web runs on php 5 that is never ever going to be updated. It's a mini-industry unto itself.

The licensing is on the order of thousands or low tens of thousands per year. Worth it for a 40-person business that has a 20-year-old legacy codebase supporting a few million dollars a year revenue. It's not what we think of as a standard "tech" company but it describes an absolutely ridiculous number of businesses.




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