PHP 5 compatibility?

Worker Joined: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 105

Hello,

I was just wondering, is this version of ravennuke compatible with PHP 5 ?

NVM, I found my answer right after writing this. Please ignore this thread.

sorry.

Spyrule

registered · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:15 am

No, actually, I'll go ahead and answer anyways as others may have the same question and I can expound a bit.

The answer is "yes", but has caveats. The core distribution of RavenNuke(tm) 2.10.x and greater IS PHP5 compatible as well as mySQL 5.0.x. At least that is what ALL my RavenNuke sites are operating at.

Now for the caveats:

* Not all add-on modules, blocks, hacks, etc. will be PHP5 or mySQL5+ compatible.

* A few folks have experienced a few issues on some mySQL 5 hosts with some of the default values. I personally have not, so, not sure just why or when.

* RavenNuke is not officially "certified" to run on such platforms, but, no worries, we have enough people here using this now that you'll still get support.

Later versions of RavenNuke should be looked at with regards to the default values on the tables just to make sure they are all consistent with mySQL5. Compatibility would be phased in I am sure.

Again, I personally have had no issues and any issues that are found should be fairly easily corrected.

I know, I jumped on this to also include mySQL, but, it would be the next question in people's minds. Wink

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:54 pm

For sure,

Is their any plan to certify it for php 5, since official support for version 4.x ends December 31st 2007

I'm using it now on php 5, and yeah, have had no problems so far.

thanks for the answer btw, it's apreciated.

spyrule.

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:34 am

No, no official "Plan" as yet.

BTW, it will be interesting to see what the hosts do with this end-of-life. Sure hope they have already started addressing this with their clients, especially on shared servers where they have many, many clients running all sorts of different tools...

New Member Joined: Sep 25, 2007 Posts: 1

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BTW, it will be interesting to see what the hosts do with this end-of-life. Sure hope they have already started addressing this with their clients, especially on shared servers where they have many, many clients running all sorts of different tools...

I am not sure about other hosts, but I have mine setup with PHP 4 as an add-on module. Essentially, PHP 5 is the default version, but clients can add a value to their .htaccess file to make PHP4 the default parser for their php files.

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:25 pm

See:[url]
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html[/url]

I believe that there are some insert statements in Nuke which may try to stick a null ('') into integer fields. If you are running on a mysql 5 system that has strict turned on it may reject these.

If you are running mysql locally you can edit the my.ini file yourself. Here's the lines where I commented out strict mode:

# Set the SQL mode to strict
sql-mode="NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
#sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"

I believe the documentation I've referenced gives instructions to find out what settings are implemented if you are on a shared server. I've had no problems with Raven's servers by the way.