[ciapug] PHP 4 to 5

[Jeff Davis]

I believe I had that problem upgrading from 3.23 to 4.1
and I had to add old_passwords=1 to /etc/my.cnf


Jerry Heiselman wrote:
> One of the problems you may experience is actually with the move to
> mysql 5.  They changed the hashing algorithm for the password()
> function and that broke a lot custom-made applications that used this
> function even though the MySQL documentation advises against this.  If
> you run into this problem, then you can either modify your code to
> call old_password() or modify your my.cnf file with a command that
> overrides the default password function (I believe that it's something
> like password=old_password.)
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> On 11/23/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> 
>>Were you running alot of "in-house" applications?
>>
>>On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 07:28, Chris Van Cleve wrote:
>>
>>>I didn't have any issues moving from 4 to 5. It was smooth and
>>>painless. :)
>>>
>>>Chris VC
>>>
>>>On Nov 23, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Does anyone have any experience taking PHP apps written in PHP4 and
>>>>running them on a server with PHP5?
>>>>
>>>>Did they run?
>>>>
>>>>I'm considering moving from php-4.3.2-25.ent, and
>>>>mysql-3.23.58-15.RHEL3.1 to RHEL 4, with PHP 5 and mysql 5 at the
>>>>start
>>>>of the next fiscal year.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>:) Dave
>>>>
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