PHP 5.2.1 and the hard time with vbulletin 3.6.4 (solved)

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 2/27/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
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> > Have you recompiled all PHP extensions too?
> >
> > I believe the php5-pcre extension might handle perl regular
> > expressions (preg_replace) in PHP.
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> Yes I did portupgrade -f "php*"
>
> There is a thread about it in vbulletin
>
> http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1312516#post1312516
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> Regards,
>
> -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
> Arab Portal
> http://www.WeArab.Net/
>

This how I got it fixed.

portupgrade -frR pcre-utf8-7.0
portupgrade -frR php5-pcre-5.2.1_3

Could someone tell me please why did I need to do this to get it fixed?

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Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/