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Php5

« on: January 17, 2005, 05:15:36 PM »

When and will php 5 be available for sme server. Have any of you tried it with any success. My web developer wants me to implement it on one of our production servers. He is big on bleeding edge Linux and I tend to hang back a few versions. Will development on 4 slow now that five is out like three did when for came out. Can any of you give me a good argument why php 5 is not the way to go at this time? I realize this is not really a SME question but I respect the opinions of the community here and want your impute.

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gregswallow

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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2005, 11:46:49 PM »

I have not tried it but I know that the included Webmail application will not work with PHP 5. If you don't need that then I'd say give it a try on a test server.

This might help
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php

You'll also have to learn, if you don't know already, about how to modify php.ini on SME, as it is a templated file.

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« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2005, 12:26:49 AM »

Thanks for the info gregswallow. I do want webmail to work if it can. Do you know if it breaks imap or just the webmail component? Could webmail be upgraded or could twiggy be used in its place.

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haj

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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2005, 05:45:45 AM »

Hi,

Well, I have tried to compile PHP on a redhat 7.3 but it seems many, many packages need to be updated...
I think it would be better to wait for the centos based SME.

Cheers

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gregswallow

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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2005, 08:27:21 AM »

I hadn't tried yet, but I did find a couple other links that may be of some help:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=169603
http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/fredcox/artigos/apache_php5/apache_php5_mysql.html (not in english)

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haj

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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2005, 01:37:09 AM »

Quote from: "gregswallow"

I hadn't tried yet, but I did find a couple other links that may be of some help:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=169603
http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/fredcox/artigos/apache_php5/apache_php5_mysql.html (not in english)

I know how to compile PHP thanks.

The fact is that there are many rpms to update to compile PHP5 rpms on SME (redhat 7.3 based).

That is to much work to build it on redhat 7.3 based SME.
As the work on the Centos Based SME is going quite fast, it seems to me it is better to wait. Anyway maybe someone else will have big time to compile PHP5 and have fun with packages dependencies

Cheers.

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