Questions about upgrading to 5.3

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Posted by m.david on August 23, 2012 at 3:55pm

I'm getting ready to upgrade from PHP 5.2.17 to PHP 5.3 on a shared hosting server. I have sites running on both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 on the server.

Is there anything I will need to change or update after upgrading to PHP 5.3?

Any gotchas I should watch out for?

I haven't been able to find any instructions or guidelines about this so thought I'd ask so I don't miss something.

Thanks!

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It's time to think about PHP 5.4+

Posted by Konstantin Boyandin on August 24, 2012 at 4:08am
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I have switched to PHP 5.3 relatively long ago. I had to dispose of certain modules that were unable to comply with PHP 5.3 (alas, I can't give the names now) - after that, I kept watch over PHP log and handled all the issues.

In most cases the problem was in different syntax of functions/similar non-critical issues that could be handled easily.

The correct way would be to post these issues to the corresponding modules' developers, to include into the next release. This is how I will proceed now.

And yes, now we should think about PHP 5.4, since the end-of-life for PHP 5.3 isn't that distant.

Thanks.

Konstantin Boyandin
System administrator & Web programmer
Email: konstantin at boyandin dot com

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