upgrade php on Redhat 7.2?!?!

FiveFlat

I have RedHat 7.2 and it came packaged with php and mysql. The problem is I cannot upgrade and I DO NOT want to use rpms. ( I feel I won't learn anything that way).
I managed to get mysql 4.0.3 working at the command prompt but my phpinfo says it's configured --without-mysql. (php 4.0.6)

How do go about upgrading to the php-4.2.3 that I have?

It seems these damn rpms just load things and don't teach me crap!

Thanks in advance!

LordShryku

Unload the php rpm, download the tarball from php.net or zend.com. There's some tutorials there on how to compile it and get everything going

FiveFlat

I removed the apache rpm, php rpm, and mysql rpm.
Then I installed all three manually and they seem to work okay! That was a good lesson for me! That part is resolved.
No I have a new problem -
my index.php loads fine it even processes the mysql queries in it. However, I have some code that links to a query for instance:

<a href=$PHP_SELF?pedigree=$reg_num>
if ($pedigree) {
....
}

The address bar shows the correct address (http://localhost/index.php?pedigree=333756), but the new page doesn't. It just blinks once and shows what it always has - index.php

any idea whats going on here?

LordShryku

That's probably your code then. I'm guessing you had register_globals on, and now they're off.

FiveFlat

Heh, I had changed register_globals to 'ON' but for some reason it wasn't looking at my php.ini. I deleted it, re copied php.ini-dist and restarted apache. All is well now!
Thanks!