PHP 5 Released

[Surrix]

Well the much anticipated release has come. Check it out at: www.php.net

Also release is PHP 4.3.8

[MrNase]

Damned, i updated my webserver yesterday and it took me 2 hours... Now i have to do it again

[Dean C]

Great news. I read a tutorial about running PHP4 and 5 in parallel but it confused me. Maybe i'll give it a try again

[Merjawy]

install for dummies is all you need
I had two veriosn installed and both running and each one is needed.. not that I knew or done for a reason.. it just happend

[Ksilebo]

The real question is, does vB work on it? I know some other things have problems with it.

[MrNase]

vB3 will run on it. vbulletin.com may prove that and update from PHP 4.3.6 to PHP 5 ^^

[Scott MacVicar]

No, we saw a performance drop with PHP5 and also a bug that would break the members area and phpMyAdmin.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29132

This will stop most people from installing it.

[M1th]

No, we saw a performance drop with PHP5 and also a bug that would break the members area and phpMyAdmin.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29132

This will stop most people from installing it.

Hmm, it says that its fixed in the CVS snapshot.

[filburt1]

The real question is, does vB work on it? I know some other things have problems with it.

Unless Jelsoft took it in mind quite intentionally while designing vB, I am sure there will be minor issues. The reasoning: everything is passed by reference now instead of by value, and if a function or method modifies a function/method argument, then it may cause erratic problems later during the script's execution.

[Colin F]

Unless Jelsoft took it in mind quite intentionally while designing vB, I am sure there will be minor issues. The reasoning: everything is passed by reference now instead of by value, and if a function or method modifies a function/method argument, then it may cause erratic problems later during the script's execution.

Umm... what

[filburt1]

Passing by reference:

function foo($bar)
{
    $bar++;
}

$i = 12;
foo($i);
echo $i; 

In PHP4, that prints 12 as a local copy of $bar is created. In PHP5, it will print 13 as a reference is passed and when $bar is changed, it is referenced to point to $i and $i will change.

So, if in vB, something like what happens in foo() is used, unforseen problems could arise.

[chrispadfield]

Filburt, thats only for OOP; not functional code; and vb dosen't use much OOP; in PHP 5, that code would still print 12, in both PHP4 and PHP5 you would need:

function foo(&$bar) {

to make it print 13.

[Wayne Luke]

The real question is, does vB work on it? I know some other things have problems with it.

I have vBulletin 3.0.3 running under PHP5 on my local machine.

[ManagerJosh]

I have vBulletin 3.0.3 running under PHP5 on my local machine.

and? :P

[Wayne Luke]

and? :P

And what? I haven't encountered any problems as of yet. No email on the machine though so I might install an SMTP server to test out email.