Re: Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

On 7/14/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

On Wed, July 11, 2007 9:02 pm, chris# wrote:

Getting 2 PHP modules to co-exist without tromping on each others' symbols is, I think, the show-stopper... It was possible to have PHP3 and PHP4 both as modules, I think, but that was an anomoly?

So which one of the developers broke this /feature/ in 5? ;) I think it's more of a systemic thing than a single developer breaking a feature... I'm not quite sure how they got all the symbols (read: internal PHP function names) to be "different" between PHP3 and PHP4, but I suspect it was a butt-load of work for not much benefit. You can run as many versions as you want in FastCGI pretty trivially. Oh, and to answer another question in this thread: I don't know how many shared webhosts offer the ability to change PHP version with ForceType in .htaccess I only know that mine has offered that for quite some time, to easy any problems with clients who need to install niche software. I also know that another webhost of one of my clients' does it. So from a tiny non-representative sample, I'm looking at about 2 out of 6 webhosts I've experienced. YMMV

I never saw a shared host with more than one PHP version installed actually, probably becaues they were all with Apache and not with FastCGI. So, for me it would be 0 out of 9... Tijnema