On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:38:44 +0200, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Richard,
>
> On 7/12/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, July 11, 2007 6:13 pm, Tijnema wrote:
>> > On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI
>> >> (one version or all of them, one can be module of course) and define
>> >> the
>> >> required PHP version by the file suffix..
>> >>
>> >> --Jani
>> >
>> > Hello Jani:
>> >
>> > I know this is possible, and I believe it is possible in Apache too
>> > with some kind of hack?
>> > But this still doesn't solve a lot of problems, but will generate a
>> > lot more with portable code. Take a bulletin board for example, there
>> > are a lot of files inside a board, and when you want to install that
>> > on your host that has PHP5 for files with .php5, you need to rename a
>> > hell lot of files to .php5, AND change code inside the .php5 files to
>> > point to the renamed files.
>>
>> No, you add a <Directory> config in httpd.conf or add to .htaccess a
>> line like
>> <Files ~.php>
>> ForceType whatever/gets/you/to/php-5
>> </Files>
>
> 1) Did you ever see a shared host that has multiple versions
> configured like this?
> 2) This will end up to be confusing for the end user, as they will
> need to create the .htaccess file (as most users don't have write
> rights for httpd.conf)
This is no more unusual that adding/eliminating directory access.
Which is pretty common stuff for users on a hosting companies box.
Extremely simple too. The hosting outfit will /surely/ indicate
any changes they need to make to provide them with the /added/
functionality. Maybe even add an applet in the Cpanel for it.
>
>>
>> Other problems:
>>
>> Getting 2 PHP modules to co-exist without tromping on each others'
>> symbols is, I think, the show-stopper...
>
> Both modules are different files, and only one will be dynamically
> loaded by dlopen(), that works fine right? or do I forget something?
Yes, you are. All OS's handle loading differently. An experience I
read about indicated that it works fine with the BSD family of OS's
but not with (at least) Linux.
>
>>
>> It was possible to have PHP3 and PHP4 both as modules, I think, but
>> that was an anomoly?
> That was nice :)
>>
>> You also would have to re-think what happens when a version is
>> requested that isn't installed at all...
>>
>> You currently have it just run in the default version, I think, but is
>> that really useful? If the code really NEEDS PHP 5, and the server
>> doesn't have 5, only 4, running the code that needs 5 is probably not
>> the right action...
Ermm... I think there would be no point providing an environment that
accommodated both versions, if both versions didn't exist. Sort of moot,
isn't it?
>
> I did, I think it should generate an error message,
> E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR maybe? And then the default PHP version should
> just give the code a try, just like it does when it is installed on a
> host that has the wrong PHP version installed.
I don't think an error makes any difference. If both versions aren't available,
an environment that accommodated both would not/should not even be a
consideration. Right?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tijnema
>
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