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

[John May]

Yes, and it works with no problems.  Most clients haven't moved up to 
5.3 yet for their other coding.

	- John


On 8/27/10 1:45 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
> 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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