What is the proper way to install php 5.2 in opensuse 11.2

[Xuid]

Hello,
I wonder if there is any way to have php 5.2 installed instead of php 5.3 in opensuse 11.2 Many currently running websites are not working with php 5.3 At this moment I am building website based on drupal6 and this is nightmare. Many modules and core functions are not working in the right way or pour out warnings errors etc.

[ken_yap]

Wouldn't it be better to apply the patches to drupal6 to make it compatible with 5.3?

PHP 5.3 Compatibility | drupal.org

You could I suppose build a set of 5.2 packages yourself, but it might be better to bite the bullet now and convert as PHP might stop supporting 5.2 with security fixes at some point, and what's more you would be responsible for keeping your 5.2 up to date instead of using openSUSE updates.

[Xuid]

I never heard about paches to drupal to make it compatible with php 5.3. Thank you for your help

[augustofagioli]

latest patch avaialble at PHP 5.3 Compatibility | drupal.org does not get rid of warnings.

Example: get a fresh new 5.20 drupal, apply patch above, simply save a node and you'll get:

 warning: date_default_timezone_set() expects exactly 1 parameter, 0 given in /srv/....../modules/node/node.module on line 2035.

I really think we should be able have previous php releases inside our opensuse 11.2 boxes.

Any suggestion to get php 5.2 on opensuse 11.2
thanks