Comments on: Notes when upgrading to PHP5

By: » WordPress et passage en PHP5

» WordPress et passage en PHP5 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:59:54 +0000

[...] des labyrinthes par Photoshop Quelques conseils relev�s par Donncha pour ceux qui voudraient passer de PHP4 � PHP5 sur un serveur qui exploite WordPress. Rien de montrueux mais il est toujours utile de regarder les aspects qu’elle signale [...]

By: » WordPress and moving from PHP4 to PHP5

» WordPress and moving from PHP4 to PHP5 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:59:30 +0000

[...] solution using Photoshop Some advice provided by Donncha for those who would like to move from PHP4 to PHP5 on a server supporting WordPress exploitation. Nothing big, but it is always good to check the items she points [...]

By: Cody Sortore

Cody Sortore — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:05:09 +0000

Thanks for the tips! Now all I have to do is get my hosting company to get on the ball and ditch PHP4 and move on to the future

By: Paveo

Paveo — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:19:16 +0000

I’m using Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.3, my WordPress and WP-Cache works fine, but PHP6 can’t make WP working.

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:33:41 +0000

I had trouble with PHP 5.2.x, but have a bunch of wordpress sites running on PHP 5.1.4 and a couple on 5.1.6 with no problems at all. Several of the sites use wp-cache and were fine after the wp-cache-phase2.php patch. Both servers are Apache 1.1.37 and MySQL 5.0.27. No idea if that has any effect on WP.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:49:11 +0000

I’ve shied away from using the packaged versions of php, since they don’t update fast enough when php security holes are plugged upstream, so I compile my own.

Doing this eliminates the hassle of your ini file moving around, and lets you hand tune your php installation.

By: Arpit Tambi

Arpit Tambi — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:23:37 +0000

I just wanted to use XML output from Youtube APIs, someone told me to use PHP5. Can I use PHP4 to parse XML ??

(I am new to PHP community, I’ve worked on .NET before)

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:58:44 +0000

@David php4 is EOL.

By: David Precious

David Precious — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:52:42 +0000

@Arpit – ask your host.

It sounds like you’d have to rename all the .php files to .php5 (which would involve changing various parts of the WordPress code too – not recommended). It might be possible to use a .htaccess file to make .php files in your WP dir execute with PHP5, but I doubt it.

More to the point, if WP is working nicely on PHP4 for you, do you really need it to run with PHP5?

By: Arpit Tambi

Arpit Tambi — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:09:49 +0000

Hello

Nice post there. I am facing a problem if you could help me. I am using GoDaddy’s hosting, they say .php files will run PHP4 and .php5 will run PHP5.

That means my wordpress blog is running on PHP4, how can I run it on PHP5???