Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
>
> -- Jason Webster <[email protected]> wrote
> (on Saturday, 05 September 2009, 04:00 PM -0700):
>> I think you'll find the biggest problem is not simply replicating
>> functions, but certain bugs in the eariler versions of PHP for which
>> there are not hacks or workarounds for in some of the framework code now
>> that the minimum requirement has been bumped up.
>
> That's exactly the issue -- that and also usage of some SPL
> functionality and new functions not available prior to 5.2.4.
>
> In many cases, the 5.2 specific functionality is actually primarily in
> use in the unit testing suite; however, there were some SPL classes we
> started to make use of.
>
> When in doubt, try running the application under 5.1.6 and see what
> happens.
>
> Based on the OP's note that upgrading PHP is not an option until
> mid-2010, my guess is that the client is using RHEL or CentOS. While
> these are great distributions, their policies of not offering updated
> PHP versions is problematic considering the length of their long term
> support. That said, if you have an official support contract with
> RedHat, they have newer versions available. There are also other
> commercially supported versions such as Zend Server that can be used,
> and provide similar guarantees to the RHEL support contracts.
You got it, Matthew. Their box is running CentOS 5.3 with Plesk Panel.
Can we run Zend Server with Plesk? My searching on this turned up mixed
results:
http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1995&p=8271
I'd be delighted to get Zend Server on their box. If we can safely ditch
the OS packages for PHP and go with Zend Server, hurrah! But I will need a
high degree of confidence that it's going to work--otherwise I'm just going
to wind up in real hot water if the switch winds up breaking their site.
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