[PHP] Help, Convincing upgrade of PHP
I will be generating a dynamic website for a Class in america. (Don't worry about details) The schools technican is the type that doesn't really know what they are talking about. They are running PHP 4.0.6 which is too old for me - Language differances. They say that upgrading to PHP 4.2.3 will put unnessercary load on our server. I have told about the security problem found (Which applys to 4.2.x only, but he doesn't know that). Can anyone think of other excuses. I told about safe mode for security. He said that when they buy a new server they will get the new version of PHP. TO me this suggests that he doesn't know how to compile PHP for Mac OS X server. Does anyone know of some good instructions? -- JJ Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tececo.com -- Please reply on the list/newsgroup unless the reply it OT. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help, Convincing upgrade of PHP
Perhaps the best thing to do would be to wait for PHP 4.3, which will offer out-of-the-box OS X support. I have compiled the latest dev releases with no problems or workarounds on OS X. However, I do have step-by-step instructions for compiling PHP 4.2.x on OS X, but depending on the libraries you need to link in, you may or may not have success. For example, I have never been able to get --with-imap to work on anything less than 4.3 (dev). If you can't wait the few days that it will supposedly take for 4.3 to be released, and you'd like a copy of my notes, let me know and I'll send them to you. -michael On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:14 PM, JJ Harrison wrote: I will be generating a dynamic website for a Class in america. (Don't worry about details) The schools technican is the type that doesn't really know what they are talking about. They are running PHP 4.0.6 which is too old for me - Language differances. They say that upgrading to PHP 4.2.3 will put unnessercary load on our server. I have told about the security problem found (Which applys to 4.2.x only, but he doesn't know that). Can anyone think of other excuses. I told about safe mode for security. He said that when they buy a new server they will get the new version of PHP. TO me this suggests that he doesn't know how to compile PHP for Mac OS X server. Does anyone know of some good instructions? -- JJ Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tececo.com -- Please reply on the list/newsgroup unless the reply it OT. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Help, Convincing upgrade of PHP
You may also want to look at: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ A build for Mac OS X based on PHP 4.4.2 with simple download and install instructions. HTH David On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 11:46 PM, Michael Geary wrote: Perhaps the best thing to do would be to wait for PHP 4.3, which will offer out-of-the-box OS X support. I have compiled the latest dev releases with no problems or workarounds on OS X. However, I do have step-by-step instructions for compiling PHP 4.2.x on OS X, but depending on the libraries you need to link in, you may or may not have success. For example, I have never been able to get --with-imap to work on anything less than 4.3 (dev). If you can't wait the few days that it will supposedly take for 4.3 to be released, and you'd like a copy of my notes, let me know and I'll send them to you. -michael On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 09:14 PM, JJ Harrison wrote: I will be generating a dynamic website for a Class in america. (Don't worry about details) The schools technican is the type that doesn't really know what they are talking about. They are running PHP 4.0.6 which is too old for me - Language differances. They say that upgrading to PHP 4.2.3 will put unnessercary load on our server. I have told about the security problem found (Which applys to 4.2.x only, but he doesn't know that). Can anyone think of other excuses. I told about safe mode for security. He said that when they buy a new server they will get the new version of PHP. TO me this suggests that he doesn't know how to compile PHP for Mac OS X server. Does anyone know of some good instructions? -- JJ Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tececo.com -- Please reply on the list/newsgroup unless the reply it OT. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
