[FX.php List] [OFF] FMServer's PHP over higher version of PHP?

[Joel Shapiro]

Belated thanks, Michael and Richard!

If anything interesting happens, I'll report back.

Best,
-Joel


On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Head Honcho wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> I'd expect it to "just work" except for a couple of "maybe" gotchas.
>
> 1) as  Richard mentioned, you won't get any of the "good" updates to  
> php provided by Apple
> 2) if someone accidentally "turns on" php from the server, I'd  
> expect it to "stomp" on the Filemaker one, with unexpected results.
> 3) I wouldn't be surprised if an Apple update did something  
> unexpected, although it shouldn't.
>
> While it's "against" the EULA, it's pretty easy to "fix" the API to  
> remove the deprecated issues - it's basically that the API uses  
> "&="  instead of "=" in a number of places... get rid of these, and  
> you're "good to go".  Not that I'm saying you should do this ;)
>
> Hopefully we'll get an updated version of the API in the not to  
> distant future.
>
> Hope this helps, somewhat.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Ward
> --
> Head Honcho, CustoMike Solutions
> Member, FileMaker Business Alliance & FileMaker Technical Network
> FileMaker 7, 8, 9 & 10 Certified Developer
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> headhoncho at customikesolutions.com
>
> On 26/08/2010, at 12:56 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> A new client is running OS X Server 10.6 on the machine that will  
>> host their FM/PHP system.  PHP has not yet been enabled on the  
>> machine, although 10.6 comes w/ PHP 5.3 installed.  I'm wondering  
>> how it would go if I were to install FMServer's version of PHP  
>> (5.2.8?) instead of enabling the system's version.  (We'll be using  
>> the API, which uses code that's deprecated in 5.3 and would need to  
>> be set to hide deprecated warnings.)
>>
>> Would FMS's lower version of PHP safely override the non-enabled  
>> higher version, or should I just stick w/ 5.3 and hide the  
>> deprecated warnings?  (There shouldn't be a need for any other PHP  
>> libraries, GD etc.)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> TIA,
>> -Joel
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