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Paul
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Paul
Posted Sep 15, 2005 - 11:39 PM:

PHP 5.0.5, while labeled as a "bug fix," actually breaks a huge percentage of scripts that work in all previous versions. That includes WSN scripts. Rasmus himself (PHP's creator) notes that compatability has been senselessly broken... yet the bug tracker people couldn't care less and make comments like "There's nothing critical here, fix your scripts."

This will be fixed either by PHP (if they come to their senses) or by me, but there could be dozens of hidden lines in the scripts that reference values in the suddenly-discontinued format plus there's another change in how it allows objects to be accessed which also breaks things (and perhaps more issues I've get to get to), so while I can get the obvious ones it'll take a long time to discover all the errors it causes. So, while PHP 5.0.4 is fine, please don't upgrade to 5.0.5.

Later edit: Version 3.2.7 works fine with PHP 5.0.5. If you're stuck on 5.0.5, you'll need to upgrade to 3.2.7 or later.
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