[support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems

[Jamie Holly]

That's pretty much it. Here's the basic ways you can do it:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net



Michael Scappa wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
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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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