Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Older versions of phpws and php5 compatability

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 31 Aug 2007, at 22:11, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:

>
> I know the current svn version of phpws is compliant, but
> unfortunately, the majority of these sites have too many
> customizations, in some cases even to core, in others, here there and
> everywhere in various mods like users and pagemaster and so on, to
> make a full upgrade in that manner. If I have to, I will, but it
> would be very, very painful ;-)
>

If they're useful generally we could always stick your mods into 0.11.


> Is there any wisdom out there, as to what the bare minimum changes
> required to get a 0.10.1 or 0.10.2 site php5 ready? Is it really that
> many changes, or just a few scattered around?
>

There's actually very few changes needed for php5. Most of the  
problems are fixed by simply taking the core Item, Manager and List  
classes from 0.11 svn. I think that's all that will change in 0.11's  
core of importance. I back ported the core/Text.php parseOutput()  
changes from 1.x into 0.x a while back but wasn't happy with the  
speed of it despite the added functionality so I went looking for  
another parser. The PEAR BBCode parser subsequently has been picked  
up by someone else again and I've got that to try out. There's a new  
ImgLibrary too but that only affects phpwsBB and possibly Article  
though it's just bug fixes.

Any mod that uses get_class() may have the same issues as the core  
Item/Manager/List classes. Just convert the returned data to  
lowercase before comparing.

Apart from that there was probably a few $this reassigns but I think  
those were sorted in 0.10.2 anyway.

At the back of my back burner there was a list of other changes I was  
trying to get in for 0.11 but "great artists ship" at some point. I'd  
really love to hammer the cross session contamination issues in  
announce, comment and pagemaster that I know of too.


The other thing that would be useful from the University is to fix  
the daily build script which hasn't worked since December when we  
moved from CVS to SVN I think.

I'm also wondering about MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 compatibility,  
particularly on Windows. IIRC the Language module with it's _EN  
suffix on the English language table causes issues on some file  
systems and versions of MySQL.

>
> ps. And I don't even want to talk about the dozen or so phpws 8.x
> sites on the server. Those cheapos are going to have to cough up or
> go somewhere else ;-)


I've got one site on 0.8x still. It seems to run fine on php5 as long  
as you leave globals on for it. I've left them on 0.8x mostly because  
I stripped down the control panel in that to about four items. 0.10.x  
and 1.x would instantly confuse them.


Shaun
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