migration to php5 issue

[Andrew Sinning]

We've moved to a new web server, migrated from php4 to php5, and we're having a few issues with phpBugTracker.

For some reason $_SESSION['uid'] is not getting copied to $smarty.session.uid so that there is a message "You must be logged in to modify this bug" in the place where you would typically click to make a modification to a bug.  Using an echo() I can confirm that uid is a valid value.

There must be some php setting that I need to change?

I can't tell what version of phpBugTracker we are using.  I can't get to the Admin page.

What to do?

Thanks

[Bryce Nesbitt]

Under Admin "Configuration", look at DB_VERSION.  The current version is 5, and that version works perfectly with php5.

[Andrew Sinning]

The version of phpbt that I was running was really old, so I went and go the most recent version.  I installed the required portions of PEAR and Smarty.  I moved my db constants over from the old install.

Now the application is failing silently (no output in the error log) on line 60 of include.php:

$db = DB::Connect($dsn);

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Bryce Nesbitt]

I'd recommend that you start by deleting config.php, and set a test database up from scratch.

Then, bring in your old database, and run "upgrade.php".

Your connect error is most certainly a PHP/PEAR thing, having little to do with phpBugTracker:

// PEAR::DB
require_once(PEAR_PATH.'DB.php');
$dsn = array(
        'phptype' => DB_TYPE,
        'hostspec' => DB_HOST,
        'database' => DB_DATABASE,
        'username' => DB_USER,
        'password' => DB_PASSWORD
        );
$db = DB::Connect($dsn);
if (DB::isError($db)) {
        die($db->message.'<br>'.$db->userinfo);
}

Hopefully your "PEAR_PATH" is set to '' (null).

[Andrew Sinning]

I was having some trouble getting the require Pear to work.  I had to change two things to get it to load:

I had to change the 'PEAR_PATH' to './inc/pear/', because that's were I put it inside of phpbt.

Then in db.php, I had to insert PEAR_PATH in the call to require PEAR.php:

  require_once PEAR_PATH.'PEAR.php';

So probably PEAR isn't installed correctly.  Where should I have installed it?

Thanks.

[Bryce Nesbitt]

Installation of PEAR:DB is outside of the scope of phpBugTracker.

Normally PEAR:DB is installed as part of the OS, and it just works by magic.  Under linux this may be by a package manager.  Else the pear command line tool.

/usr/bin/pear

bryce@buccaneer:~/cvs/tools/phpBugTracker$ pear list
Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
=========================================
Package                  Version State
Archive_Tar              1.3.2   stable
Console_Getopt           1.2.2   stable
DB                       1.7.12  stable
OLE                      0.5     beta
PEAR                     1.5.4   stable
Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer 0.9.1   beta
Structures_Graph         1.0.2   stable

[Bryce Nesbitt]

Remember you near the PEAR:DB module.  If possible test PEAR:DB before getting frustrated with phpBugTracker.

[Andrew Sinning]

How should I go about testing PEAR:DB?  Thanks!

[Bryce Nesbitt]

Installation of PEAR:DB is outside of the scope of phpBugTracker.

Normally PEAR:DB is installed as part of the OS, and it just works by magic.  Under linux this may be by a package manager.  Else the pear command line tool.

/usr/bin/pear

bryce@buccaneer:~/cvs/tools/phpBugTracker$ pear list
Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
=========================================
Package                  Version State
Archive_Tar              1.3.2   stable
Console_Getopt           1.2.2   stable
DB                       1.7.12  stable
OLE                      0.5     beta
PEAR                     1.5.4   stable
Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer 0.9.1   beta
Structures_Graph         1.0.2   stable