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PHP 4 officially died Friday. I started programming PHP with release candidates of 4.0.0 -- which simultaneously introduced me to the GNU C compiler and toolset. My first official job using PHP was at a shop that was using PHP 3, and considering the costs of upgrading to PHP 4 -- which clearly offerred many benefits over its predecessor. I switched to PHP 5 as soon as the first official release was made four years ago -- the pains of reference handling with objects, the introduction of a unified constructor, first-class support for overloading, and SimpleXML won me over immediately, and I've never looked back. Goodbye, PHP 4; long live PHP!