[Mapserver-users] PHP version and Maplab

Paul Spencer spencer@dmsolutions.ca
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:09:23 -0500


Hi,

the earliest version that MapLab was developed with was PHP 4.0.6. 
There have been a number of significant changes to PHP since 4.0.6. 
MapLab has undoubted taken advantage of at least some of those changes. 
  Most significant is probably session handling and use of superglobals 
$GLOBALS, $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION and some other changes.  It is most 
likely that MapLab will not run on versions of PHP earlier than 4.2.x 
without at least some problems.

Also note that there are many significant security and bug fixes that 
have happened after PHP 4.0.6 that should justify upgrading to a more 
recent version.

Cheers,

Paul

Mat Brletic wrote:
> Does anybody know if PHP 4.0.4 running on Apache 1.3.19 is sufficient to 
> properly run Maplab?
> 
> The "Maplab Installation Instructions for Linux" state that version 
> 4.2.x is supported (and required).
> 
> 
> Mathew M. Brletic
> IS Analyst
> Visalia Unified School District
> Visalia, CA 93277
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Paul Spencer
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca


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