[FX.php List] FYI- Deprecated in PHP 5.3 (incl. ereg...) + PHP upgrades?

[Dale Bengston]

I just interrupted reading this post to go sign for my Snow Leopard  
shipment!

Mark L says he doesn't have Snow Leopard yet, but doesn't expect the  
10.5.x build to work unchanged on 10.6.x.

Dale

On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Roger Moffat wrote:

>
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>
>> I recently discovered that the various ereg functions are  
>> deprecated in PHP 5.3.x -- and will be removed as of PHP 6.0.0.  I  
>> know I've got some older scripts that use ereg (or one of its  
>> variations), so I thought I'd pass this along to the list:
>> http://us.php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php
>>
>> As an aside, when do you generally upgrade PHP on your existing  
>> sites?  As upgrades come out?  When required for security?  Never?
>
> I don't write much of my own original PHP, but I have a set of  
> purchased scripts that I run for a number of genealogy sites.
>
> I also run my own server on my Mac Pro, and since the genealogy  
> software requires the GD Library, and Apple doesn't include that  
> I've been using the PHP builds from Entropy.ch on my Mac.
>
> I updated I think at 5.2.4 or thereabouts when I got a Mac Pro that  
> came with Mac OS X Leopard, and then went to 5.2.9 when Marc got  
> back into developing his builds.
>
> Given the above list of deprecated functions, a move to 5.3.0 might  
> be a while yet.
>
> Also of note is that at this early stage there is no Entropy.ch  
> build of PHP for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I don't know what Snow  
> Leopard comes with - I'm patiently awaiting my DVD to arrive "before  
> 3PM" today, so will know later on. Hopefully it won't be long before  
> Marc has a Snow Leopard compatible build ready to go.
>
> Roger
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