[ciapug] PHP 4 to 5

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Ohhhh....   It maybe that in the past I was on occasion lazy my array
keys....  Ohhh....moan.... groan....  Thank god for grep!


On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 09:45, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> Well, first gotcha will be if you pass any arrays by reference.  For 
> example this isn't allowed:
> 
> $nextValue = array_pop(explode('/',$absolutePathToFile));
> 
> Instead you have to do:
> $nextValue = array_pop($tmpArray = explode('/',$absolutePathToFile));
> 
> Or, preferrably
> $tmpArray = explode('/',$absolutePathToFile);
> $nextValue = array_pop($tmpArray);
> 
> Also, if you got lazy with your array keys you'll pay.  This isn't 
> allowed anymore (which was bad practice to begin with):
> 
> $someArray[someKey]
> 
> Instead it has to be:
> 
> $someArray['someKey']
> 
> If you did OO programming in PHP4, the constructor is now always 
> __construct() regardless of the class name.
> 
> Obviously the new OO features in PHP5 introduce a number of new keywords 
> that should probably have been avoided in PHP4 by most folks but I don't 
> doubt that a few cases may arise.
> 
> --Tony
> 
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > Hmmm... So it would seems the upgrade issues are relatively minor.
> > 
> > Now, I'm anxious to give it a try!
> > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 08:30, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > 
> >>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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