Posted by MissyM on April 7, 2008 at 8:49pm
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| Project: | FileField |
| Version: | 5.x-2.3 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
Hi --
The documentation states that FileField has a hard dependency on PHP 5.2 (or later). My host won't upgrade me from php 5.1 to php 5.2. Can you point me in a direction so I know how to tell if it's creating a problem?
Thanks --
Monique.
Comments
#1
I think 5.1 should work as well, but I can't test so I can't guarantee or support it. Just try to enable the module, and if it doesn't spit weird PHP warnings at you, everything's alright.
#2
So far so good....
#3
So if i'm using PHP 4.3.9 am i just out of luck for this kind of functionality? what are the alternatives?
#4
@roleychiu: Unfortunately, yes. dopry doesn't want to keep PHP 4 compatibility, and we have to respect that. Anyways, even if not considering filefield, it's a good idea to get your webhost to upgrade to PHP 5 (or switching hosts if they don't want to), because PHP 4 is not supported anymore by the PHP developers and thus likely to be an issue for security when security leaks are discovered but not patched because of the unsupported state.
#5
Has anyone tested it on PHP Version 5.1.6?
#6
It works relatively well with the 5.1's of PHP, but is not supported...
#7
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
#8
dopry, I was wondering if you could expand a little on FileField 5.x-2.3 on PHP 5.1.6. I'm curious to know what in FileField depends on features that are in PHP 5.2 but not in 5.1.6. Can you shed some light here? Thanks.
#9
@akahn, read http://drupal.org/node/294880
#10
Thanks, bbeyer, that answers my question. I'll continue using FileField 5.x-2.3 on PHP 5.1.6, since it seems to be working. I'll ask my host to upgrade if I run into issues.