Re: [phplib-users] PHP 5.2 and PHPlib

[Lindsay H. <fmo...@fm...>]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 14:51 +0200, Marko Käning wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> whoever might be out there...
> 
> I just downloaded Richard Archer's version 7.4a from the internet. Then 
> remembering that I would find phplib's source also on SourceForge...
> 
> Anyway, having checked its bugtracker I verified that phplib is full of 
> HTTP_POST_VARS and similar things. That's just frightening now that I 
> wanted to port my application to PHP5 where these VARs don't exist 
> anymore.

The long, old-style arrays can still be used by setting
register_long_arrays = On your global php.ini file, or by putting the
equivalent directive in one of the apache configuration files.  It's
also pretty easy to script a utility which will replace all of the long
array names using perl, python, or even probably sed/awk from a shell
script.  I've done this to to replace all the short PHP tags - "<?" - in
all files in a directory with the longer equivalent - "<?php", which is
necessary if one wants to use XML tags in a PHP page.

I have bunch of websites to move from a PHP4 box to a PHP5 box with
register_long_arrays = Off and will toss together a utility or two in
python to do this conversion easily.  I'll post them here if anyone is
interested.  

> Feel quite lost all of a sudden. Looks like I'd have to step back and use 
> PHP4 again...

PHP4 is not considered up to current security standards for use on the
open Internet, and is no longer supported by the PHP development group.

> If somebody out there has successfully applied PHPlib on PHP5 and would be 
> willing to share the source I'd be very happy.

I'm successfully using PHPlib on PHP 5.2.  Looking at the PHPlib source,
the only file that contain the long array names which I use frequently
is local4.inc, which I copy and modify on a per-site basis, and so far
I've simply used a global replace in vim to do the name conversion.  

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