[support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems

[Michael Prasuhn]

I wouldn't recommend 5.3 for Drupal for a long time.

PHP 5.2 series is still getting updates and is at 5.2.11.

While Drupal 6.14 is technically compatible with 5.3 (it suppresses  
deprecated warnings for use of ereg) it is highly doubtful that much  
of contrib is compatible, and probably won't be for a long long time.

-Mike
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On Oct 13, 2009, at 9:30 AM, andy baxter wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have recently moved a site from my test server (which is running php
> 5.2) to the live server (which is running php 5.3).
>
> Since doing this, a lot of pages are throwing error messages about a
> function expecting a reference argument.
>
> I have done enough research to get some idea of what the basic problem
> is, but still don't feel that I understand it well enough to dive in  
> to
> trying to patch the code. So far all I have done is add something to  
> the
> template to suppress warnings for non-admin users.
>
> If anyone can help with this, I would appreciate it - the site is  
> going
> public in two days and I still have some other things I need to sort  
> out
> before then. Does anyone know of any well written explanations on-line
> of how this issue has come about and how it affects drupal? Or if
> someone on the list could take the time to explain to me what the  
> issue
> is, that would be good as well.
>
> cheers,
>
> andy
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