Re: [Phplib-users] phplib 6.1, php3 and php4

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

Thus spake Daniel Bondurant on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:54:09PM CST
> I would recommend installing the latest phplib, but put it in a
> different folder, and let your users know of the new folder and let them
> upgrade as needed.

The php3.ini file references an include_path and an auto_prepend file which
must be one place or another.  I can't have it both ways.  Most of my
customers don't know PHP from last Sunday's fish chowder - they just know
that their websites do what they expect and want me to keep them that way.
 
> keep php3, just upgrade to the lastest version.  There are a few things
> that might break, and you can't really predict what they are.

Well it seems that no one really knows what might break, although I was
hoping that someone on the PHP list would have had some experience with this
and analyzed the problem.  I know that more recent versions of phplib _do_
require that class definitions be modified, so every class in every
customer's pages will need to be fixed if I upgrade phplib.  I'd rather
start by upgrading php, if possible, hence my question.

> If your
> customers insist on php4, 

Far from insisting, my customers' eyes would glaze over if I tried to
explain the difference.  They're mostly non-techie folk.  They just want
their sites to work.  I write all the PHP code for them.

> then you might be better off installing it in
> addtion to php3 (they can both be running on the same machine; assign
> .php3 to php3 and .php to php4 in apache).

I've thought of this.  The fascist Debian dependencies won't let me do it
from packages, so I'll probably build php4 from source and go that route. 
The php4 in Debian stable is out of date in any event.  I could run a more
recent phplib w. php4, modify class definitions on a site by site basis, and
then switch the MIME types in the local .htaccess file to turn on php4 for
each site.

> the php3/php4 question is best left for the php mailing list.

Well my question relates directly to phplib, so I was hoping to get an
answer here.  I don't think any of the code in these sites which doesn't
depend on phplib is going to break.  I don't push the envelope too hard.

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