Req #73421 [Nab]: General complaint

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73421&edit=1 ID: 73421 User updated by: shearnes at roadrunner dot com Reported by: shearnes at roadrunner dot com Summary: General complaint Status: Not a bug Type: Feature/Change Request Package: PDO related Operating System: Ubunty 16 PHP Version: Next Major Version Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Perhaps, but what Im saying is that the Ubuntu upgrade did not indicate this at all. Weather thats Ubuntu's oversight or PHP's who is to say? I'm not an expert IT professional, but I have managed to more or less go on my own ability when it comes to upgrades and other changes for many years, but in this case, the site just stopped loading php, and since we run with safe mode off usually, it was not obvious there were errors. I did alot of research online for weeks, and saw others having the same problem, but after doing everything w/bash as they did, nothing seemed to make progress. Wound up hiring a developer and paying about 150 USD (money which I have to borrow) to resolve the whole problem. To me it was alot of wasted time, and also some money, and if I knew ahead of time the pro's and cons upgrading to 7, would never have went forward with it. But really its mostly all irrelevant as the website itself is hardly barely worthwhile keeping up. 150 USD is more than the site has actually generated the past 2 years. Not that its php's fault, but the site has to compete with China and sites like Alibabba, who at the time I made this site were not really able to compete. However Google has placed them at top of lots of search results this site use to be at least on the 1st page for so that it at least has a chance to maintain itself. Its frustrating and you feel like a 1 legged man in an ass kicking contest fighting that stuff, its impossible to really have even a change at all, and it means spending more seo money and probably more on php dev... so when something like this happens, it makes things that much worse to recover from, sorry for the rant. "But again, your distro provides the necessary php7-mysql package the same way it does for php5, so you don't have to change a single line of code in your app to upgrade to PHP 7." Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-31 17:52:35] rasmus@php.net But again, your distro provides the necessary php7-mysql package the same way it does for php5, so you don't have to change a single line of code in your app to upgrade to PHP 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-31 15:05:39] shearnes at roadrunner dot com Thanks to rasmus for the proactive response. Im not really sure there is much a benefit for an older portal like the 1 I am using to use php7, except that from what I hear the sql injections are nearly impossible to do. Overall since I have set the site up back in 2004, php has been a relatively stable language... so thanks for doing an otherwise great job until this time. Of course I rather stay up to date and put 7 in, but for now I guess will stick with 5.6 as its running ok for now, and the site really does not get much traffic anymore in this tanked global economy, so again thanks for your efforts supporting php. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-30 16:16:43] rasmus@php.net Also, the migration from mysql to mysqli is simpler. It is close to a search+replace of mysql_ calls to mysqli_ calls. Should take about 30 minutes. Alternatively, the outdated mysql extension is still available and works fine with PHP 7. It is simply now just not distributed with the main PHP sources. Get it from Pecl. However, since you indicated that you are using Ubuntu, there is actually zero difference for you. Ubuntu packages the mysql extension in *exactly* the same was as they did for PHP 5. See http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=php7.0-mysql So the deprecation is actually invisible to you since you will apt-get install the package exactly the same way you did for PHP 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-30 15:47:20] requinix@php.net The solution is simple: don't upgrade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-30 15:21:28] shearnes at roadrunner dot com Description: ------------ Just a general complaint - not happy with the depreciation of the older mysql to PDO. I have ran an older web portal called PHPNuke for years and I spent lots of money customizing it to serve a specific trade [ www.parts-link.com ] and after an Ubuntu 16 upgrade, I am told PDO wont support older PHPNuke web portal unless I hire more developers to recode all the files, which they immediately say is going to cost a lot. In this terrible global economy, I cant justify such a thing. I'm disappointed you guys who are thinking this stuff up dont consider these circumstances and just leave people in the dust. I had the site down for a couple months pondering what to do because I spent alot of time trying to get it going with php7 , but and I only just now got a developer to get it back up rolled back to php5.6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73421&edit=1