PHP 5.3 upgrade problems
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
could you be a tiny bit more specific as to the errors you are getting also - you might want to check your error display settings in both PHP.ini's and see if they are the same it could just be that the errors were occurring on your test server and you might not have been seeing them. -- Dan Horning American Digital Services - Where you are only limited by imagination. dan.horning@planetnoc.com :: http://www.americandigitalservices.com 1-518-444-0213 x502 . toll free 1-800-863-3854 . fax 1-888-474-6133 15 Third Street, PO Box 746, Troy, NY 12180 (by appointment only)
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of andy baxter Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:30 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] PHP 5.3 upgrade problems
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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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@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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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@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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Can't you specify the version of PHP in .htaccess or something? On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, andy baxter < andy@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@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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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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@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@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@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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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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@gmail.com <mailto:victorkane@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@earthsong.free-online.co.uk <mailto:andy@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@mikeyp.net <mailto:mike@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 >> -- >> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] >> > >
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Victor Kane wrote:
Can't you specify the version of PHP in .htaccess or something? I didn't know that was possible. I'll talk to the server admins about it.
Thanks, andy
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, andy baxter <andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk <mailto:andy@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@mikeyp.net <mailto:mike@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 >> -- >> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] >> > >
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