Re: PHP 5....

Ryan A wrote: > Hi, > Something strange and dont really know what to expect so was hoping you more experienced PHP 5 > people can help me out. btw which minor version of php5 your running is important ... plenty of things have changed in [semi] breaking ways between minor php5 versions. > > We have been given a development server thats running php5 with MySql Client API version 5.0.22 > (didnt know there was one that high) > > the problem is, we have to develop on this and then when its done the app will be moved to a > php 4 final server... > > I have been reading and i see that there are some php4 functions that act strange on php5 (like > strpos) what's wrong with strpos() in php5? are you perchance using multibyte strings without using the mb_string function overloading stuff? > are there any other things I should be aware of? the fact that objects are always references in php5 and in php4 you have to use '&' everwhere to make sure your always talking to the same object (using the '&' notation in php5 will give you NOTICEs or WARNINGS depending on the minor version) that and a million other little things like certain functions not being available :-) > > If you think it would be too much of a hassle, do you think i should request the admin to > install php 4 instead and scrap this installation? YES. *at the very least* it will be a pain to dev on php5 and go to production on a php4. > > I have also seen many sites having php4 and 5 on the same machine, this is a windows server, is > there any easy way to do that here? sorry I'm clueless regardless IIS. > > Thanks! > Ryan > > ------- The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. > - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! > - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-) > >