PHP no longer works.

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#1

On 11.3 fine.
But 11.4 and the beta version I can not get PhotoFrame to work.
(from Dougiamas.com: PhotoFrame) It used PHP 4.
I’ve given it my all and can not to seem to find out what is happening.
If I turn debug on I can get it to give me errors like can not find /usr/bin/convert etc…
I am now running openSUSE 12.1 “Asparagus” Milestone 5.
What gives???

#2

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:06:02 +0000, n9bk wrote:

> I am now running openSUSE 12.1 “Asparagus” Milestone 5. What gives???

You may want to ask in the beta/pre-release forum since you’re using a
beta release. Someone there may know what the issue is and have a fix
for you.

Jim

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#3

IMHO It’s not PHP that’s not working, it’s the software that’s not been updated to match current PHP standards. I run multiple PHP based local development websites and -applications, PHP works.

#4

On 2011-09-19 22:06, n9bk wrote:
> If I turn debug on I can get it to give me errors like can not find
> /usr/bin/convert etc…

And you, can you find that file?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#5

The files are there.
I figure that I need to update the PHP script to be complaint with PHP5, but I would have thought that PHP5 would run scripts that are PHP4 compliant.???
How do I convert a script from PHP4 to PHP%?

#6

I should point out that on 11.4 my PHP script also does not work. So I went to the beta rather than downgrade back to 11.3.

#7

No! PHP4 had critical security concerns. PHP5 dates from 2004 and PHP4 maintenance was discontinued in 2008. SuSE-9.3 included PHP5 in 2005. The only PhotoFrame tarball on Sourceforge is from 2003, although according to the forum http://sourceforge.net/projects/photoframe/forums/forum/191174 there was a PHP5 version in 2006.

How do I convert a script from PHP4 to PHP%?

From the forum ther is a link to a version 6.9e at
http://thewholeinternet.com/photoframe/pf69e.zip
and the changes for PHP5 are described in post:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/photoframe/forums/forum/191174/topic/1489825

This does not look like good code and the output looks far removed from any W3C HTML or XHTML standards.

I would either look for an alternative or start from scratch.