PHP 5.3

[Tonie]

Thought I read somewhere that we aren't supporting 5.3 at the moment,
and are contemplating fixing this for 1.5.13. If we do, please let it
now here so we can use it when answering questions on the forum. At
the moment we're getting multiple questions regarding 5.3 per day.

Should we change the requirements pagefor the moment?
http://www.joomla.org/technical-requirements.html

[Andrew Eddie]

Tonie, is anyone actually using PHP 5.3 in a mission critical
production environment, or are they just stuffing around on their dev
boxes? If it's the latter, they can (to be blunt) put up and wait
until we've had a good look at things. If there are people are have
had no choice but to go to a PHP 5.3 production environment for good
reason, then please direct me to the posts and I will see what I can
do.

Regards,
Andrew Eddie
http://www.theartofjoomla.com - the art of becoming a Joomla developer


2009/7/8 Tonie <ani...@gmail.com>:

[Tony Wild]

Will ask the following questions if I think they are using PHP 5.3.

Are you using PHP 5.3?
If using PHP 5.3, Is this a production website or a development website? Advise: use 5.2.x
If this is a production website, does your hoster give you the opportunity to PHP 5.2 or 5.3? Advise: 5.2.x

For production websites are using only 5.3, I will change the title to reflect it's a 5.3 related bug and place them in the bug reporting forum so they can be tracked easier.

Regards,

Tonie

PS: Nice presentation in Brisbane on 1.6.

[Mitch Pirtle]

Just note that a lot of folks - me included - run "apt-get update" and
"apt-get upgrade" on our servers to keep patches current. It is
totally possible that PHP 5.3 makes its way out into the world, as it
is the current version of PHP.

Not saying it is smart or the Right Way(TM), just pointing out that it
is bound to happen.

-- Mitch

[Ian MacLennan]

I would imagine you'd have to do a dist-upgrade to get 5.3.  Am I wrong?

Ian

[Mitch Pirtle]

That would depend on the packagers of that repository. Then there's
RPMFind, RPMForge, and bazillions (bajillions, even!) of others out
there as well. There's a very high probability that folks end up with
PHP5.3 on their servers when doing routine updates.

If PHP5.3 breaks any compatibility with 5.2, it should have been
called something else, but that's water under the bridge at this
point.

-- Mitch

[Ian MacLennan]

Well...  okay...  I guess I assume that any sensible host wouldn't be running a distro that would upgrade *that* quickly.  If they are, then they are headed for trouble no matter what *we* do.

Debian doesn't have 5.3 planned for Lenny, Ubuntu won't get it until at least 9.10, probably 10.04.  CentOS 5.3 has php-5.1.6.  SUSE just released with 5.2.6.  Fedora rawhide still has 5.2.10.

We do plan to fix for 1.5.13, but, IMO, it isn't a needed tomorrow fix. (i.e. important but not critically urgent)

Ian

[Mitch Pirtle]

Just sayin'.

:-)

[Ian MacLennan]

Fair enough :)

Ian

[Antonie de Wilde]

Very much agreed that running 5.3 in production already is not the most sensible thing to do at the moment

Ian, if people have issues with PHP 5.3, should I move those posts to the Bug Reporting forum (and maybe title tag them)?

Antonie

[Ian MacLennan]

Sure, that should be fine.

Thanks Tonie

Ian

[Luis Galárraga]

In my experience distributions usually do this kind of upgrades across different versions, so it is unlikely for Ubuntu xxx (and less likely in server or LTS editions) to do this kind of upgrade in a maintenance update. Furthermore most distributions (especially server oriented) do not upgrade their packages versions so quickly as Ubuntu does, so I suspect there will be 5.2.x for a little long while.

Luis,

2009/7/8 Ian MacLennan <ianl...@gmail.com>

[Andrew Eddie]

Test patch available:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=17150

[dukeofgaming]

I'm also drooling about PHP 5.3. I will put it in production with
Joomla as soon as Doctrine 2 is ready or I finish our in-house
framework [already using PHP 5.3 for some sazzy reflection tricks].
Nothing happening too soon tho.

Will test that patch today =).

On Jul 8, 5:44 pm, Andrew Eddie <mambob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Test patch available:http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEd...
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Eddiehttp://www.theartofjoomla.com- the art of becoming a Joomla developer

[Joseph LeBlanc]

I noticed a couple of calls to ereg_replace() in mod_footer. These
appeared to be simple search and replaces, so I switched them to
str_replace() instead. Uploaded a new patch with that fix included.

-Joe

[Jonathan Cheung]

Andrew make a patch, and i have already tested that

still many issues not resolved

and most of the problems is the reference problem

and i am trying to make a patch

2009/7/9 Joseph LeBlanc <con...@jlleblanc.com>

[Beat]

Fyi, a hoster already upgraded to PHP 5.3 here (i asked for hoster
name):
http://www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,view/id,104668/catid,100/

[Joseph LeBlanc]

Also, it appears that WAMPServer is now shipping 5.3.0 (http://www.wampserver.com/en/
), which is causing issues when people are trying out Joomla locally (http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1784613
).

-Joe