PHP 5 Released!

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

I would like to know as well...I have the opportunity to have my dedicated server upgraded but need to know if anyone has it running with vb3.0 and how the stability is with it....

On my server it has (testing) in front of PHP 5 right now so I opted to go from 4.3.7 to 4.3.8 for now.

[Xenon]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wizard

I would like to know as well...I have the opportunity to have my dedicated server upgraded but need to know if anyone has it running with vb3.0 and how the stability is with it....

I believe the devs have tested vb3 on php5 since a long time as well, and didn't occur any problems.

On my own testserver here, i've installed php5 since Beta 4, and vb3 works flawless.
vb2 works as well, but there were a few little issues iirc.

But as i'm not running a great community on my localhost, i cannot give any benchmarks

point with PHP5 is to have a complete hosted install, because local servers like me on my own OS-X, it takes too much memory... btw, some suggests to have a complete package of up-to-date softs: PHP, MySQL and Apache latest version... they arebuilt to work together this time!

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Xenon

I believe the devs have tested vb3 on php5 since a long time as well, and didn't occur any problems.

On my own testserver here, i've installed php5 since Beta 4, and vb3 works flawless.
vb2 works as well, but there were a few little issues iirc.

But as i'm not running a great community on my localhost, i cannot give any benchmarks

Thx for the info...very appreciated!

[Boofo]

I just upgraded the server to PHP 5.0.0, so we'll see how it does. I am also running MySQL v4.0.20-standard and Apache v1.3.31. Is that a good combination?

Plus I am running RC3 (with all the security fixes).

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I just upgraded the server to PHP 5.0.0, so we'll see how it does. I am also running MySQL v4.0.20-standard and Apache v1.3.31. Is that a good combination?

Plus I am running RC3 (with all the security fixes).

I would try apache 2, just because I have not seen any problems with it. I don't run a large site so I could'nt tell you if it gives any hit preformance wise.

altho IIRC the box the vB sister sites are hosted on is apache 2 powered.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

I would try apache 2, just because I have not seen any problems with it. I don't run a large site so I could'nt tell you if it gives any hit preformance wise.

altho IIRC the box the vB sister sites are hosted on is apache 2 powered.

As soon as it becomes an option in my root CPanel, I will probably install it. As of now, only 1.3.31 is an option there.

[Boofo]

An update: I had to go back to 4.3.8. I kept getting the following error (among others) from init.php whenever I tried to use the PungoSpell spell checker.

It said function.implode was not an array in this query:

PHP Code:

 $datastoretemp = $DB_site->query("
SELECT title, data FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "datastore
WHERE title IN ('" . implode("', '", $specialtemplates) . "')
");
unset($specials, $specialtemplates); 


It nailed function.merge (array_merge) in here too and another one in global.php.

So, apparently, there are areas it needs work on, I guess.

[Xenon]

@bob: i believe that the code isn't written well then.

you always have to define $specialtemplates = array(); in custom scripts.

If you don't do that, then php5 will throw a correct error.
I don't know why php4 doesn't but actually it should

[Boofo]

I figured it just wasn't written to handle 5.0.0 yet. But since I do use it extensively, I had no choice but to go back to 4.3.8. And I was looking forward to trying 5.0.0. out, too.