FreeBSD 8.0 -> PHP 5.3.x

[Paul Macdonald]

On 06/10/2011 16:55, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
> Short of upgrading the OS, what is the safest way to upgrade a FreeBSD server to PHP 5.3.x from 5.2.11 ?
> I am assuming downloading the ports tarball and rebuilding and reinstalling will do it?
> Any advice, samples would be appreciated,
> -Grant
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It's not too traumatic an upgrade, and initially is as simple as you 
suggest,
remember  to uninstall extenstions via the meta port 
lang/php52-extensions (and reinstall desired extensions via 
lang/php5-extensions)

further suggestions, *
*copy the config make options from phpinfo() on 5.2 as it'll help you 
remember what you need for 5.3.
keep a copy of you php.ini obv also.
check http://uk3.php.net/migration53

you'll likely know but 5.3 is quite different from 5.2 so there's a few 
gotchas, such as  changes to log levels, no more register globals, you 
must explicitly use $_POST or $_GET
no more register_long_arrays, you cannot use $HTTP_POST_VARS
short tags are probably off  round about that version,

if i recall, there was some changes to a lot of my $_SESSION code so 
check any code that uses that, (but this could well have been my 
implementations.)



good luck
Paul.