RE: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions
Assumption 2 is invalid. You need to take a close look at the change log. Many features from 5.2 are no longer available and will break code that depends on them. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: David Stoltz [mailto:dsto...@shh.org] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions Hi, We are currently using PHP version 5.2.6. in production, and I'd like to upgrade to the latest 5.3.1 My Assumptions: - I can simply download the Windows binary file, and install it. - None of the 5.2.6 code will break Will there be a momentary interruption of web services during the install? Will the current PHP applications stop working during the upgrade? Thanks for any info. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions
Bob - I checked the changelog - 99% of it are bug fixes I don't see anything about 5.2.x features not being available as you suggest. But thanks for the reply. -Original Message- From: Bob McConnell [mailto:r...@cbord.com] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:50 AM To: David Stoltz; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions Assumption 2 is invalid. You need to take a close look at the change log. Many features from 5.2 are no longer available and will break code that depends on them. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: David Stoltz [mailto:dsto...@shh.org] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions Hi, We are currently using PHP version 5.2.6. in production, and I'd like to upgrade to the latest 5.3.1 My Assumptions: - I can simply download the Windows binary file, and install it. - None of the 5.2.6 code will break Will there be a momentary interruption of web services during the install? Will the current PHP applications stop working during the upgrade? Thanks for any info. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions
We are currently using PHP version 5.2.6. in production, and I'd like to upgrade to the latest 5.3.1 Before upgrading production, upgrade your staging server and do QA. Any big changes like this should be tested in staging before being pushed to production. Also take a look at http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php to be sure you know what has changed between 5.2.6 and 5.3.1. My Assumptions: - I can simply download the Windows binary file, and install it. I don't use PHP on Windows, but I would never make this assumption. Things never seem to be as easy as I expect them to be. Try on a staging server before making a change like this in production. - None of the 5.2.6 code will break That's a big assumption. The only way I know of to test it is running the code on a box with 5.3.1 and test it. Will there be a momentary interruption of web services during the install? Will the current PHP applications stop working during the upgrade? I've never used IIS, so I may not be helpful here. If you're using Apache on Windows you'll need to restart Apache is generally a very fast operation. Brady -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions
You may be right, I keep thinking of the bugs that were dropped out of 6.0, like magic quotes and register globals. They're only deprecated in 5.3. bm -Original Message- From: David Stoltz [mailto:dsto...@shh.org] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:59 AM To: Bob McConnell; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions Bob - I checked the changelog - 99% of it are bug fixes I don't see anything about 5.2.x features not being available as you suggest. But thanks for the reply. -Original Message- From: Bob McConnell [mailto:r...@cbord.com] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:50 AM To: David Stoltz; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions Assumption 2 is invalid. You need to take a close look at the change log. Many features from 5.2 are no longer available and will break code that depends on them. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: David Stoltz [mailto:dsto...@shh.org] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:50 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Upgrading PHP versions Hi, We are currently using PHP version 5.2.6. in production, and I'd like to upgrade to the latest 5.3.1 My Assumptions: - I can simply download the Windows binary file, and install it. - None of the 5.2.6 code will break Will there be a momentary interruption of web services during the install? Will the current PHP applications stop working during the upgrade? Thanks for any info. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
