[Xerte] Re: database.php (PHP Version 4 vs 5)

[David Goodwin]

Hi,

Some statistics :

orange:~/src/xerteonlinetoolkits $ phpci print --reference PHP5 --report function -R . | grep 5.
436 / 436 [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>] 100.00%
  spl_autoload_register                 SPL               5.1.2               1
  simplexml_load_file                   SimpleXML         5.0.0               1
  iconv_set_encoding                    iconv             4.0.5               1
  iconv_strlen                          iconv             5.0.0              10
  iconv_strpos                          iconv             5.0.0              38
  iconv_strrpos                         iconv             5.0.0               3
  iconv_substr                          iconv             5.0.0              33
  dirname                               standard          4.0.0              53
  fclose                                standard          4.0.0              51
  file_put_contents                     standard          5.0.0               6
  fopen                                 standard          4.0.0              55
  fread                                 standard          4.0.0              57
  fwrite                                standard          4.0.0              50
  htmlentities                          standard          5.2.3               1
  md5                                   standard          4.0.0               1
  scandir                               standard          5.0.0               1
  str_split                             standard          5.0.0               3
REQUIRED PHP 5.2.3 (MIN) 
Time: 1 second, Memory: 28.25Mb



modules/xerte/new_template.php uses scandir(). (PHP5)
rss.php uses/expects htmlentities() with PHP5 style parameters.
website_code/php/import/dUnzip2.inc.php uses file_put_contents() but should work with PHP4 as it checks if the function exists and defines one if not.
library/Zend/* requires PHP5.2+
library/autoloader.php requires PHP 5.1+
functions.php (_debug()) requires file_put_contents (PHP5)
index.php - requires PHP5.1 for InvalidArgumentException



Thanks
David.

On 30 Apr 2012, at 07:50, Julian Tenney wrote:

> It may well be well past its end of life, but the systems people here have only just upgraded to PHP5 from 4.
>  
> How big an issue is this, if we insist on PHP5? I agree with the rationale, just not sure about the reality…?
>  
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
> Sent: 29 April 2012 17:59
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: database.php
>  
>  
> On 29 Apr 2012, at 17:50, Dave Burnett wrote:
> 
> 
> "Having said all that, I'm about to commit a change to the code which will remove the foreach($params as &$value). But I'm also about to commit some other stuff which will definitely not be compatible with PHP4."
>  
> Glad we had that discussion.
>  
> Yeah… sorry….
>  
> I hadn't known Xerte still claimed to support PHP4 … so it's highly likely that I will have previously committed something which disagrees with PHP4 - e.g. file_put_contents(). 
>  
> If Julian / Pat wish to still support PHP4 then I will undo whatever I've done - but I feel like it's saying we should still support Windows 95. PHP5 was released in ~2004.
>  
> thanks,
>  
> David.
>  
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