[support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems

[andy baxter]

I don't really have much choice about the PHP version we're using 
unfortunately. I have been contracted to design an interactive site for 
a university department, and they are very keen to have it running on 
their own server, which runs 5.3. It might possibly be an option to move 
the site to a commercial server, but so far most of the errors I am 
getting seem to be non-fatal, so I am thinking to try and make the best 
of things on this server rather than ask them to switch.

andy

Michael Prasuhn wrote:
> 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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