[SOLVED] php 5.3.4 is not working after update

while true · Last edited by while true on Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:58 am; edited 1 time in total

Ola,

since last weeks update (I presume) I have problem with my localhost.
At the end of update I found this:

Mousee · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject:

Please follow this documentation as a reference (and for future upgrades): http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-guide.xml

The greatest and most useful thing you'll learn from that documentation, besides using eselect, is the fact that you can "slot" your PHP installs.
So you can have PHP 5.2.16 and PHP 5.3.4 installed at the same time and easily switch between them (and in fact, you can use both at the same time - with a bit of hackery).

Thus, as per your inquiry, simply run the following to add PHP 5.2 to another "slot": emerge dev-lang/php:5.2
And of course use eselect to switch over to it once it's been installed.

It's likely that Joomla may not be compatible with PHP 5.3 yet - unfortunately I don't use that software so I can't say for certain, but several functions did indeed change in PHP 5.3 that appear to cause breakage in scripts with poor programming practices.

while true · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject:

Hello Mousee,

Sorry for delayed reply,
although I read and followed your instructions the next day you posted.

I am not a native English speaker, but I think I got most out of your link.
I switched back to php 5.2 without any problems.

It seems like it is time to start coding a better php code

thank you (again, kheh) for straight forward and pin-point answer.
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