Re: newbie migration issues

Check out the FAQ on php.net to see about migration issues. They have a section in there...or is it in the manual...well it's in one of those somewhere. First, what security issues are you having? If code is being displayed to the browser it's because the extension is probably not correctly figured. When you start with PHP4 I believe the standard is it will use .php3 and .php, but leave off .php4 and .inc. So you'll need to add those into your server configuration files. On the final question, great care was taken to make PHP4 compatible with PHP3, but certain things are just blasted impossible. Preserving complete compatibility would be little more than a big speed-bump in the road of progress, so to speak :) Then again, it's easy for me to not complain because I started learning on PHP4, hehe. -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. ""S.J. Black"" <alphafemale@radiant.net> wrote in message news:3AE4D05C.559E0085@radiant.net... > Hi, all - > > Hoping someone can help me with this..I have a client who has a webiste > with a number of php3 scripts in it, and we're having a spate of > problems relating to migration to php4. > > 1) I need to know what needs to be done to convert php3 scripts to be > compatible with php4. > These are scripts largely to do with counters, statistics, date & > time functions, and the like. What needs to be done to their > extensions as well? > > 2) Not having access to that info at the time, we decided to go back to > php3 - and then ran into a host of security issues re visibility of > the html directory. The requisite > libraries were there, apache was configured to work with php3, and so > forth. If anyone > can explain how security issues arose, and give me some faint clue as > to how to prevent > that from ever happening again,I will try to send maple syrup. 8) > > 3) Can anyone begin to explain the rationale for making php3 and php4 so > utterly > incompatible? > > Thanks in advance, > > Alpha > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >