Re: phpinfo problem

From: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:12:13 +0000
Subject: Re: phpinfo problem
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Richard Heyes wrote:
The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back. Might I suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a newer version - it tells you important stuff like that.
The problem people will have is having to go through ALL the PHP5 changes when converting from PHP4.
Why is that a problem? I would have thought that that is automatic. Surely you're not suggesting that people are upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5 without exhaustive testing? That particular one adds a lot of
characters to files on some PHP4 upgrades, where there are lots of <? ?> - so switching it is the quicker fix.
                   ^ on ?
Most of my tags are the long type, justa very, very few that are not, but I have turned short tag support on.
Also, this was not a planned upgrade. I run Slackware 9.0, PHP4 & MySQL4 on my server, Kubuntu on my workstations. Debian has dropped support for MySQL 4. I needed to add mysql 4 to my workstation (to solve a server problem) and found that the mysql4 binary was not compatible with the debian packaged php5 so I had to remove that and install php5 from source. Kind of a domino effect. I do much more reading and testing when do a planned upgrade, I just didn't have the time this time. Thanks, Rick

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