[support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems

[Michael Scappa]

Won't help if the other versions aren't installed. Plus, correct me if i'm
wrong, but only one can be loaded as an apache module. the rest would need
to run under cgi?

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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