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<?
require("shared.inc");
commonHeader("Migrating from PHP 3.0 to PHP 4.0");
?>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Migration from PHP 3.0 to PHP 4.0 is relatively easy, and should not require
you to change your code in any way.&nbsp; There are minor incompatibilities
between the two versions;&nbsp; You may want to check the <a href="incompatibilities.php">incompatibilities
list</a> to make sure that you're indeed not affected by them (the chances
you're affected by these incompatibilities are extremely slim).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Running PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0 concurrently</h2>
<p>Recent operating systems provide the ability to perform versioning and
scoping. This features make it possible to let PHP3 and PHP4 run as concurrent
modules in one Apache server.</p>
<p>
This feature is known to work on the following platforms:
</p>
<ol>
<li>Linux with recent binutils (binutils 2.9.1.0.25 tested)</li>
<li>Solaris 2.5 or better</li>
<li>FreeBSD (3.2, 4.0 tested)</li>
</ol>
<p>To enable it, configure PHP3 and PHP4 to use APXS (--with-apxs) and the necessary
link extensions (--enable-versioning). Otherwise, all standard installations
instructions apply. For example:</p>
<pre>
$ ./configure \
--with-apxs=/apache/bin/apxs \
--enable-versioning \
--with-mysql \
--enable-track-vars
</pre></p>
<p>If this also works on your platform or if you know a way to do it, please report
it to our bug database at http://bugs.php.net</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Migrating Configuration Files</h2>
<h3>Global Configuration File</h3>
<p>The global configuration file, <b>php3.ini</b>, has changed its name to <b>php.ini</b>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Apache Configuration Files</h3>
<p>The MIME types recognized by the PHP module have changed:</p>
<p>application/x-httpd-php3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
--&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; application/x-httpd-php</p>
<p>application/x-httpd-php3-source&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; application/x-httpd-php-source</p>
<p>You can make your configuration files work with both versions of PHP
(depending on which one is currently compiled into the server), using the
following syntax:<br>
<pre>
<IfModule mod_php3.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>
</pre>
<br>
<p>In addition, the PHP directive names for Apache have changed.</p>
<p>Starting with PHP 4.0, there are only four Apache directives that relate to
PHP:</p>
<p><b>php_value [PHP directive name] [value]</b></p>
<p><b>php_flag [PHP directive name] [On|Off]</b></p>
<p><b>php_admin_value [PHP directive name] [value]</b></p>
<p><b>php_admin_flag [PHP directive name] [On|Off]</b></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are two differences between the Admin values and the non admin values:</p>
<ol>
<li>Admin values (or flags) can only appear in the Server-wide apache
configuration files (e.g., httpd.conf).</li>
<li>Standard values (or flags) cannot control certain PHP directives, for
example - safe mode (if you could override safe mode settings in .htaccess
files, it would defeat safe-mode's purpose).&nbsp; In contrast, Admin values
can modify the value of any PHP directive.</li>
</ol>
<p>To make the transition process easier, PHP 4.0 is bundled with scripts that
automatically convert your Apache configuration and .htaccess files to work with
both PHP 3.0 and PHP 4.0. These scripts do <b>NOT</b> convert the mime type lines!
You have to convert these yourself.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>To convert your Apache configuration files, run the apconf-conv.sh script
(available in the scripts/apache/ directory).&nbsp; For example:</p>
<p><b>~/php4/scripts/apache:#&nbsp; ./apconf-conv.sh /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf</b></p>
<p>Your original configuration file will be saved in httpd.conf.orig.</p>
<p>To convert your .htaccess files, run the aphtaccess-conv.sh script (available
in the scripts/apache/ directory as well):</p>
<p><b>~/php4/scripts/apache:#&nbsp; find / -name .htaccess -exec ./aphtaccess-conv.sh
{} \;</b></p>
<p>Likewise, your old .htaccess files will be saved with an .orig prefix.</p>
<p>The conversion scripts require awk to be installed.</p>
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