(not quite linux) PHP3 or not to PHP3?

[Warren Togami]

Any of you have this problem with PHP 4.0.4p1?

Whenever I turn on that gzip handler thing in php.ini, there is a serious
memory leak that eats all available memory and goes into swap... slowly
killing the server over time...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Y. Sue" <jysue at stanfordalumni.org>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: (not quite linux) PHP3 or not to PHP3?


> PHP4 seems to be pretty stable, although they have been occasional bug and
> security patches. Current version is PHP 4.0.4p1. There is a guide for
> migrating from PHP3 to 4, but the website says:
>
> "PHP 4.0 and the integrated Zend engine have greatly inproved PHPs
> performance and capabilities, but great care has been taken to break as
> little existing code as possible. So migrating your code from PHP 3.0 to
> 4.0 should be much easier than migrating from PHP/FI 2.0 to PHP 3.0. A lot
> of existing PHP 3.0 code should be ready to run without changes, but you
> should still know about the few differences and take care to test your
code
> before switching versions in production environments "
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration4.php
>
> At 11:18 AM 4/13/01 -1000, you wrote:
> >Hiya folks! (excuse the lame attempt at humor in subject line)
> >
> >I'm starting to dork around with PHP a bit and wanted to do my own
> >installation on my linux box. I have the Wrox PHP programming book that
> >was written before PHP4 came out as a starting reference.
> >
> >My question: Will most stuff out there work with PHP4 even though
> >originally written for PHP3? Is there any reason to install both?
> >
> >I tend to be a bit conservative when playing with new version releases of
> >software and PHP4 seems to be a pretty recent release.
> >
> >There used to be some folks on the LUAU list who met occasionally to do
> >PHP stuff...are they still out there? :)
> >
> >Thanks in advance!
> >
> >Erich
>
>
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