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

[John May]

FYI, we use our own custom PHP 5.2.x builds here with the FileMaker API 
with no issues.

	- John


On 8/26/10 7:33 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
> 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
>> ph 0414 562 501
>> 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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