PHP 4.3.3 Released today!! (Aug. 25th)

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Sinnix
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PHP 4.3.3 Released today!! (Aug. 25th)

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So, it's just after lunch and I'm setting up my new webserver. I start hitting all the usual places to download my stuff (Apache, MySQL, etc.) and then I type in PHP.net ... only to find it lagging out... :?: :?:

I was like... wtf?!!?! I don't got time for this!! Then I read the top line and was like... sweet. ;)
PHP 4.3.3 released!
[25-Aug-2003] The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.3.3. This release contains a large number of bug fixes and we strongly recommend that all users of PHP upgrade to this version. Full list of fixes can be found in the NEWS file.
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Upgrading from 4.0.6 to 4.3.3

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Hi,

Very general question... (I know!)

How backwardly compatible is 4.3.3 with 4.0.6?

Problem: I have to upgrade a server and take care of any issues that arise. I am familiar with 4.0.6 and haven't used much beyond that version.

Server setup: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24_01 mod_throttle/3.1.2

There are several sites but each has only a few pages that are mostly PHP/Mysql to retrieve info from a db. They use pretty standard code (for 4.0.6), nothing appears too fancy or complex as far as I can see.

Are there any specific areas (in particular session handling, imap, mysql etc) that I should be aware of that will definitely need to have code changed to be operational with 4.3.3?

I would really appreciate any pointers cos this is going to be an uphill struggle, apart from having to read code I wrote 2 years ago (I hope my commenting was good), I will have to learn all the new functionality in 4.3.3.

I am hoping I won't have to completely rewrite any of the sites but I guess that's just optimistic.

Thanks,

Panicked Panda
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downloaded it

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Well I downloaded it and saw only 10KB difference with 4.3.2 :lol:
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Post by JAM »

Pandacoder:
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.3 would probably be the best source to see whats happened.
Personally, I think that the biggest change might be with the register_globals (see the passing variables link in my signature).

But there is a whole bunch of changes since 4.0.6, so just putting a finger on something that might be a problem for you sounds bad.
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Pandacoder -
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