Re: Running PHP5 in a PHP4 environment

Paul M Foster wrote: > I recently installed some code written for a PHP 5 environment on a > server which I thought was running PHP 5. It was a form which should > have painted at least something to the browser window. But instead, I > got a complete blank page. Come to find out that the server was > actually running PHP 4. > > I've seen PHP do this before-- trying to run PHP 5 in a PHP 4 > environment causes it to do every step up to the point where it sees > "future code" it doesn't understand. Then it just stops, no errors, no > panics, no nothing. > > Is this expected behavior, or am I missing something? It seems like if > the PHP interpreter hit some "future code" it didn't understand, it > would issue a syntax warning or something similar. Is there some way I > can squeeze some identifiable error code out of PHP 4 to indicate it's > hit PHP 5 code it doesn't understand? Check the apache error logs, that is where you will usually find something. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.2°C)