PHP 4.2.3 + 4.3.4 enviroments together?

halex

Hello,

Is it possible to have at one maschine two different PHP enviroments (4.2.3 and 4.3.4) for testing?
With using of one Apache webserver, how to modify httpd.conf i php.ini to support this (if it is possible)?

I saw barely differences between old and new version of PHP... When I had in old PHP some HTML text box named "tbox" I could read it after submiting from PHP variable $tbox ...
With this new version 4.3.4 register_globals id OFF? I need to use $REQUEST and $GLOBALS arrays?
Also if I do in old version session_register("tbox") I won't be able to get it as $tbox, but as from $SESSION array?

Thanks
Alex

mtimdog

Yes, it's possible, but debugging your code to run with register_globals off and upgrading it to run on newer versions is a good thing. There are reasons that newer versions exist.

That said, just ahve 2 php directories. php4.2.3 and php4.3.4. Rename whichever you want to currently use to php so apache can find it.

Note: the php.ini file will probly need changed when you switch as well.

This is actually what I do on my laptop because of a certain bug in 4.3.x that breaks some code, but then there's a certain bug in 4.2.x that breaks some other code. Gotta love it.