Drupal 6.17 with PHP 5.3

Posted by sreedharprabhu.... on February 2, 2012 at 6:07am

Hi,

Currently I am using Drupal 6.17 with php 5.2 . I planned to upgrade my php 5.2 to 5.3 but drupal should be 6.17 version.

Does all the drupal 6.1.x contributed modules will support to php5.3.

Need suggestion.

Thanks,
Sree

Comments

yes

Posted by gadams on February 2, 2012 at 6:20am

Hi Sree,

At this point all of the top Drupal 6 contributed modules should work perfectly fine with PHP 5.3.

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Core 6.17 may have issues

Posted by aruna.kulatunga on February 2, 2012 at 6:39am

Drupal Core was harmonised with php 5.3 from release 6.15. However, there were some issues. Core 6.22 is completely compatible with php 5.3. Any reason why you need to stick with 6.17? Also, instead of using Drupal Stock 6.22 version, I would strongly encourage people to use the Pressflow 6.22 fork available for download at www.pressflow.org

Yes, you need to update to

Posted by mikaoelitiana@g... on February 2, 2012 at 6:56am

Yes, you need to update to 6.22 for security reasons and the advice to use the pressflow version is really a good one

Too wide question

Posted by fuzzy76 on February 2, 2012 at 7:52am

"all the drupal 6.1.x contributed modules" is too wide a question. I can guarantee you that not every single D6 contrib module works on PHP 5.3. Most of the popular ones do, though. But you can't tell for sure if your specific combination works without testing it (I've also seen PHP 5.3 incompatibility suddenly occur in updates as bugs).

updates

Posted by dev_halosys on February 2, 2012 at 11:56am

The 3rd argument of function views_ui_ajax_form should not be exclicitly marked as "passed by reference". PHP 5.3 chokes on this.
We can do this but we need to change in some file like file.inc, views.module and some other. I also work on my local setup with PHP 5.3 its working good but its display some deprecated function error, we can easily to remove anyhow...

Please take the group

Posted by schoobidoo (not verified) on February 2, 2012 at 3:18pm

Please take the group "buerger gestalten" out of your distribution list, we don't have something in common with this problem. Thanks!

PHP 5.3 Issue

Posted by freestone on August 4, 2012 at 12:01am

I upgraded my core 6.24 (huge number of modules) server to php 5.3 and all worked except the nodes of the Advanced Forum will not display. Any ideas on why. Problem is I have tons of modules. It sure seems there should be some tool to scan code for compatibility. Anyone know of anything like this so I can figure out what module is the issue?

John Williams
Freestone Products
john@freestoneproducts.com
720-560-1460

PHP 5.3

Posted by anup_ns on August 4, 2012 at 3:56am

Have you enabled you errors and warnings ? What are the warning/error you see on your screen ? can you share them please - Regards - Anup

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error.log

Posted by freestone on August 4, 2012 at 2:00pm

I finally looked at the error.log from the root of the site. Thanks for reminding me to do that. I see two errors in the time frame (see below). I am using authcache and now wondering if it is using ZEND in some way ???

I installed a number of cache modules to try and speed up some key pages but thought memecache was one I uninstalled?

So it appear that ssh2.so and memcache.so are the offending, perhaps missing libs that are part of php 5.2 and not 5.3 ? Thoughts? Thanks for the help.

[02-Aug-2012 23:24:53] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: pdo_mysql: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20090626, debug=0, thread-safety=0
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
[02-Aug-2012 23:24:53] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ssh2.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ssh2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

and

[02-Aug-2012 22:16:20 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ssh2.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ssh2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
[02-Aug-2012 22:16:20 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

John Williams
Freestone Products
john@freestoneproducts.com
720-560-1460

error log

Posted by anup_ns on August 5, 2012 at 4:30am

These errors shouldn't ideally be the issue for Adv.forums.
Did you run update.php after the move ? P