Going from 4.1.2 to 4.3.1

TechnoBum

I'm still a noob struggling through this on a wing and a prayer, and these are my issues:

I'm running PHP 4.1.2 and I would like to upgrade to 4.3.1

My specs:
Mandrake 8.2
Apache 1.3.23
MySQL 3.23.47
(running a php website)

My questions:
1 - Is this upgrade possible without disrupting any of my existing setup. Would PHP 4.3.1 just settle into place quietly, without pain and sorrow ?

2 - If the answer to question 1 is "yes", then are there packages (RPMs) or tarballs that contain all that's needed for one single upgrade operation ?
My 4.1.2 installation was by way of an RPM, and it required many other RPMs to be installed in order to satisfy "dependencies" (mod_php, php-imap, php-common, php-mysql, and on... and on... and on...). Hunting around for required depndencies became very tiresome.

3 - And finally, do I need a PHP 4.3.1 that's specific to Mandrake 8.2 ? In other words, would Mandrake 8.2 require a zillion other thingies installed in order to satisfy dependencies needed to accomodate PHP 4.3.1 ?

ir4z0r

normal functions are still supported, although they may be marked
as "deprecated", BUT the trap nearly erverybody gets caught in are
global vars.

if you use a form to pass vars to the next page, u have to use
$POST['var'] or $GET['var] for get-method

if you prefer to not mess with it, you can enable register_globals
in your php.ini, although that's not recommended

since you have already all depend. installed, there should be no
probs, don't u think?
probably a generic Mdk-RPM should be sufficent, just use rpmfind.net
to find an appropriate one

mmilano

that is good advice

make sure your error reporting is set to all errors except notices too. i think by default all errors ( including notices ) is on. usually that will cause errors in many scripts.

also, since you are upgrading, .. you might be tempted to upgrade Apache too. do NOT upgrade to Apache 2x !!

TechnoBum

Thanks for the good advice indeed.

A couple of months ago I tried out SuSE 8.1 with Apache 2 and got nowhere with that.

What's this all about then with Apache 2 ???