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

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi John

Are you running 5.2 on Snow Leopard (Server)?  (i.e. instead of the  
pre-installed 5.3?)

Thanks,
-Joel


On Aug 27, 2010, at 7:48 AM, John May wrote:

> 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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