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

[Joel Shapiro]

That's great to hear.  Thanks John!

Best,
-Joel


On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:00 PM, John May wrote:

> 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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