Re: Re: moving to other web server

Chris wrote: > David Robley wrote: >> Afan Pasalic wrote: >> >>> hi to all, >>> we are moving our web server from one to other hosting company. we have >>> chance to request what version of php i want to be installed, 4 or 5. >>> Current web server works on php 4.3.4 we don't use any classes, >>> functions only. as far as I know, in our case moving from 4 to 5 >>> shouldn't be any problem, no concerns. but, anyway, where can I expect >>> errors - except in oop? >>> >>> thanks for any help. >>> >>> -afan >> >> If you currently use a variable named $this you can expect problems. > > Care to elaborate? I use that all the time on both php4 & php5 servers > and it works fine. > When I upgraded my service to php5 a couple of scripts that used $this as a variable name, as opposed to $this->value, were spitting errors - I don't remember the actual error but let me see if I can reproduce it; <?php $this = ''; echo $this; ?> Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/test/file.php on line 2 Cheers -- David Robley "I love the novels of D. H. Lawrence," said the lady chattily. Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 65th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3172.