Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:08:47 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade of PHP4 Message-ID: <200710082008.49782.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200710090341.l993fxqw045888@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200710090316.l993G3VA045316@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <200710081922.23228.beech@freebsd.org> <200710090341.l993fxqw045888@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Monday 08 October 2007, Olivier Nicole said: > > Doubtful, given the fact that php4 will reach EOL December 31. > > You should plan on upgrading to php5. > > Thanks, now that lads to the second question, what will I break > when updating? What should I be carefull about? I have several > servers, managing quite many sites, with a lot of home made > pages... > > TIA, > > Olivier It should be ok with most current apps, but I would run them on a test server first if it's something mission critical. Php's site has migration info (http://www.php.net) which should be helpful for custom scripts. Also the vendor sites should let you know if they will work with php5. I haven't run into anything that won't in quite a while, but your mileage may vary :-) You will need to completely remove php4 and ALL extensions then rebuild them with php5. FWIW, their site says that they will still have critical patches for a while, but all official support stops at the end of December. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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