I guess partly I am wondering what else migth be included in Propel 1.3, apart from the DateTime class, that would need PHP 5.2. It has to be more than just the DateTime stuff .. surely no one is going to enforce a higher level of PHP as a requirement just to make working with Date types comfier?
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Paolo Mainardi <paolomaina...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Gareth McCumskey > <gmccums...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been looking at using Propel 1.3 on our project which currently >> uses Propel 1.2. The research I have seen online points at Propel 1.3 being >> a ton faster than 1.2 because of the switch from Creole to PHP's PDO. The >> one problem we have is that our servers cannot be upgraded (for now at >> least) to PHP 5.2.x or greater. Whether this will change in the future I am >> not sure but as it stands I have to assume it wont for when we need to go >> live. >> >> I noticed Propel 1.3 lists a PHP version of 5.2.x or higher as a >> requirement and I tried to convert anyways to see what kind of problems, if >> any, might crop up. PHP 5.1.x does in fact have the PDO support. The one >> problem I came across was that PHP 5.1 does not support the DateTime class >> so if you have fields in your schema set as timestamps then your bang out of >> luck it seems. >> >> I was wondering if anyone knows anyway to work around these issues so that >> we could, in fact, use Propel 1.3 as the performance improvements would be >> brilliant for us in our app that has to handle very many records and >> objects. We occosionally get "Out of memory" errors when running pretty >> intense database/ORM methods. >> > > > The only thing you can do is to switch your server to PHP 5.2, i hate > sysadmin people :) > > > -- > Paolo Mainardi > > CTO Twinbit > Blog: http://www.paolomainardi.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
