[support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems

[Victor Kane]

Can't you specify the version of PHP in .htaccess or something?

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, andy baxter <
andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
> > __________________
> > Michael Prasuhn
> > 503.512.0822 office
> > 503.539.3864 cell
> > 503.661.7574 home
> > mike at mikeyp.net
> > http://mikeyp.net
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
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