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so far i have had no problems with my old version, i was wondering what you guys think...is it a big boost from 4.3.2 or do you think its ok to hold off for a little while
PHP5RC1 is not a stable release. It's still considered beta quality, and may have problems. It is not recommended to use on production machines, until at least the *final* release is issued.
php.net wrote:[18-Mar-2004] The first Release Candidate of PHP 5 is finally here! The move from Beta stage to RC stage means that PHP 5 is now feature complete, and is quite stable - stable enough for everyone to start playing with. Note that it is still not recommended for mission-critical use.
Stable enough, but not enough for a "final release" label.
php.net wrote:[18-Mar-2004] The first Release Candidate of PHP 5 is finally here! The move from Beta stage to RC stage means that PHP 5 is now feature complete, and is quite stable - stable enough for everyone to start playing with. Note that it is still not recommended for mission-critical use.
Stable enough, but not enough for a "final release" label.
Indeed.
But there is still reason to be excited because this is just a step closer to the first stable release!
I challenge you guys to go and test this thing and help the community find the bugs and suggest some last minute tweaks!
Hey can PHP5 and PHP4.3.3 run togeather on one server? And say PHP5 only reads the .php5 extenstion while PHP4 reads the usual .php and .php4 extensions. Anyhow, can anyone point me out to a PHP5 installation guide? I'm scared to replace my old files and lead me to other problems.
I've never went around pasting files in the past - always have used the installer.
nay, where did you get the .php5 extension being what php 5 will use? i haven't really read that much up on it, but from what i have i didn't actually see that. Not saying you aren't correct, i'm sure you are, I would just like to read up on it myself. Sounds interesting and .. very, very bad at the same time ..
I hope nobody else incorperates a new number behind the .php extension.
But then again people use custom ones all the time...I used .sami for a while, but then relized it would be stupid because if I ever uploaded the file to the web, I'd have to beg my host to add me a personalized line in the web server config.
Nay: I think it is possible. Though I have not done this, in theory by the looks of this http config it can be done.
PHP Startup: : Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20020429, debug=0, thread-safety=1
PHP compiled with module API=20040316, debug=0, thread-safety=1
These options need to match
That message comes up in a warning box. No PHP is shown.. No can do, Sami.
I don't know about Windows, but in Linux php3 and php4 can exist at the same time, each using .php3 and .php4. I assume the same can be done on Linux with php4 and php5 .
But it's also a mystery how PHP4 and PHP3 can run on the same server O.o. I've read it can be done, but eh......lost it. Maybe that theory can be applied to PHP4 and 5?
But I think 'maybe' it's because they're was little change with PHP4 and 3 therefore both can run with one php.ini. But we all know PHP5 and 4 are totally different creatures I suppose.
It's an Apache server setting via http.conf - see Sami's post above. For what it's worth, you could call your PHP-files myphpscript.gargle if you set in the http.conf.
It has nothing to do with PHP in that sense. PHP gets handed the pages/scripts it's supposed to interpret by Apache, and this is where the extension needs to be specified. And yes, you could have multiple extensions being parsed by PHP.
I find it strange that a changelog mentioned this:
* Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)
for the beta1. The build in MySQL support is gone with rc1 and when I uncomment the mySQL extension, it fails to load the library... Is that just me?
Basically, if I upgrade from 4 to 5, mySQL stops working. Very confusing - is it the way it is supposed to be?