First, I want to thank all for helping me with lots of suggestions for
questions I posted ("Disabling ODBC", "Tracing crashes", "ODBC vs.
Straight MySQL", ...)in the last couple of months. Even if my problem was not
fully solved it was more due to my having an old platform nobody else
used, than lack of insight or experience on those who helped me: their
insight finally pointed on the right direction.
I would like to post, if it were of any use to somebody else, the
partial solution (still not 100%, but now it is a reproduceable bug)
to the problem I experienced (PHP crashing erratically, after serving
a perfect, complete script):
1. PHP (3 and 4) crashes erratically when using ODBC connections with
Access 95. The ODBC32.DLL from 1995 that comes with it is buggy, so it
sometimes crashes without "declaring itself" as the offender. Not even
the ODBC log reports any error.
2. Upon installing and de-installing Access 97, the dll's were updated
to new ones dated 1996, which solved the crashing problem 100%. Access
95 still works perfect (well, as far as it goes ;) ) with these new
dll's.
3. Better yet, I didn't know of the existence of "Microsoft's Data
Access pak". I got it form an Abriasoft Lite (pretty good Win
installer that sets apache, php and mysql), as a standalone
application that updates ODBC management, with dll's dated 1998. These
work better yet and no need to mess up the registry by installing and
de-installing Access 97.
Result: zero crashes!!! Passing from an average 10 crashes a day, this
truly fills me with joy.
Still three bugs, one of them already reported here, I have to check if
they have been posted on the site:
1. With PHP running as an apache module, launching applications from
context menus freezes explorer, messing up the display by having to
kill the application and having Win run it again (thus, losing all
tray icons).
2. With PHP as module, several second delay (freezing windows) when
launching applications using Windows' hot-keys. (Related to n. 1 ?)
3. Again, when running as module, there's a conflict with some
applications (my best example is Eudora lite 3.0.6): it freezes upon
launching, unfreezes when I stop apache, and works ok from then on
when I re-start apache.
None of this happens with php as CGI.
Thanks again to everybody for the help. This is a great list!
Gonzalo.
INFO: Win95b, Apache 1.3.14, PHP 4.0.4pl1, Access 95 updated with Data
Access Pak.
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