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ATS16805

As a member of the PHPBuilder mailing list, i received today's announcement on the release of PHP 5.1.2

According to phpinfo(), i have PHP Version 5.0.5 installed on LocalHost.

Where can i find (or what is the "rule of thumb" regarding) step by step instructions on how to properly upgrade to a new release? after a few mins of searching, i couldn't find instructions specific to my version, or the task in general, so since this category exists, i thought i might as well go ahead and ask!

thanks so much!

thorpe

It really depends on what os your using. I assume, on windows, you would need to uninstall the old version and install the new one.

On linux, you would just recompile the new version over the old one.

ATS16805

yes, i have PHP 5.0.5 installed on Windows XP Pro.

so, by uninstall-- you mean, remove php.ini from the c:\windows\ directory, delete the c:\php\ folder, and simply start over by unpacking the new php version, and making the appropriate mods to the php.ini file?

or-- is there more to it than that to constitute a PHP uninstall on a Windows system? (and re-install for that matter i guess)
am i going to need to make any changes to the apache httpd file?

thanks!

thorpe

Sorry, ive never installed php on windows. I thought you may remove it via the control panel, but obviously I'm mistaken.

ATS16805

you wouldn't happen to know of a page a php.net that i might be overlooking which might have info specific to a 5.x update to 5.x?

i see lots of stuff about migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5, but really nothing about updating an existing PHP 5 installation. nothing on the downloads page at php.net. nothing in the changelog, etc. i'm getting the feeling i should just do as if it were a fresh PHP5 install? hmm...

how were "minor" updates handled on Windows (XP) w/ PHP 4?

did my guess above sound correct... or correct enough? my concern is that i'm in the midst of a development project, and i don't want to experience extended downtime (if murphy's law is going to take over, of course it will happen to me!)
i don't think my files are goign to be backward compatible w/ my PHP 4 machine, so i'm really just trying to save myself the headaches. i'm sure you can understand that. 😉
any other time, i'd just experiment w/ it.

surely someone else reading is using PHP 5.x on a Windows system, and has updated their PHP 5.x to a newer 5.x at some point, no? if so-- then, what did you do? i've only ever installed fresh PHP 4 on system A (which still has it) w/ Apache 1.x and this system has this PHP 5.0.5 w/ Apache 2. it's been working fine since first installed back in Sept. i suppose i don't have to update, but i'd like to do so-- if for no other reason than "...it just seems like the right thing to do..."

thanks for your help!
😉

EDIT: could i just "backup" my existing PHP 5.0.5 by creating a folder somewhere, moving the current files, and then just starting over w/ the new ones in PHP 5.1.2? since there aren't any changes made in the OS (other than php.ini and the "path"), i should be okay to give that a shot, then-- huh?

is there something specific you recommend i look for in httpd.conf?

(this means i'm running it as an Apache Module, right?)
i see that i commented-out these lines:

#ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
#
# For PHP 4
#Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"
#
# For PHP 5
#Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi.exe"

ATS16805

okay-- i backed up by c:\php\ folder, unpacked php-5.1.2-Win32.zip and put its contents back in place of the v 5.0.5 files, and instead of customizing the php.ini file "from scratch", i simply copied my php.ini file back into the c:\php\ folder and c:\windows\ (not sure why it goes both places, but that's how i was originally instructed to do it, so i've kept w/ it w/ no apparent problems, and always modding one, and copying to both places so they are identical).

i tried running phpMyAdmin and it didn't work-- said the MySQL extension wasn't there (you know the error, probably), then i remembered that i needed to also copy the .dll files from the C:\PHP\ext into c:\php\

once i copied the .dll files, everything seems back to normal. should i trust that i've done a successful upgrade? the Apache Status in both Windows Services and in the Apache monitor are both showing PHP 5.1.2 as well as phpinfo()

can you think of anything i may have left out?

thanks for reading!