For anyone who is interested the following additions have been made very recently.

1. 25 applications are now in the system! We’re still adding requirements but we have the main details and requirements recorded.
2. Slight changes are being made to the check file being run on our beta hosts. Extra checks for version numbers have been added.
3. The application tag cloud now randomizes the location of each application name. (Still working the CSS out for the design of each.)
4. The news feed for the right hand column is now being pulled and displayed.
5. Forums have been added to the site BUT still needs to be properly setup. Actual forums need to be added and users are needed!

Changes to come soon…

1. The hosts we are collecting data from will soon be announced
2. The host cloud will become active soon
3. The application detail pages will go live
4. A page explaining the beta for hosting companies will be put up
5. Some code cleanup for the template engine will be implemented
6. A banner rotation system will be added for the promo spot

On the one hand we’ll be able to help people with these scripts toward the goal of finding a suitable host. On the other we’re promoting scripts which might just be relying on register globals and long arrays being enabled, that’s bad!

My personal belief is that, as webmasters, we must be responsible in selecting the scripts which run our sites and engines. We should not select a script that will not run properly in a modern environment, nor should we be buying or using scripts which developers have simply stopped keeping up to date with the latest in standards and compatibility.

I suppose that should answer my question… no PHP4 applications will be added to the system if they require any features such as register_globals or register_long_arrays to be “On”.

Sorry to everyone who this will be affecting!