[pmwiki-users] PHP version for PmWiki

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Or try to update your php version on ovh ; this should be easy step :
try https://www.ovh.com/fr/g1207.configurer-php-web

2015-06-19 15:27 GMT+02:00 Bernard Bel <bernarbel at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I was a subscriber of this list in 2012 after enthusiastically converting
> old wikis to PmWiki.  I have just subscribed again because I am facing a
> serious problem. My apologies if the issue has already been raised on this
> list!
>
> In France, OVH, the foremost service provider, announced that after 24
> September 2015 they will no longer support PHP 5.3 and earlier versions.
>
> I upgraded the wikis I am in charge of and noticed that they still run
> under PHP 5.3.  Version 5.4 yields error messages due to an obsolete manner
> of passing variable pointers in functions. In my conventional web design,
> for instance, I had to replace calls such as
>
>    str_replace($this,$that,$line,&$count)
>
> with:
>
>    str_replace($this,$that,$line,$count)
>
> I notice that PHP code is often using the '&' addressing and it does not
> look easy to change all occurrences...
>
> So, my question is: is there a chance that we get a new version of PmWiki
> supporting PHP >= 5.4 before September 24?
>
> Otherwise, which new piece of software should we use to migrate from the
> obsolete PmWiki?
>
> Your advice will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Bernard Bel <bernard.bel at lpl-aix.fr>
> Ingénieur de recherche
> Laboratoire Parole et Langage
> http://lpl-aix.fr
> UMR 7309 CNRS - Université d'Aix-Marseille
> 13604 Aix-en-Provence (France)
>
> Founder member, Special Interest Group on Speech Prosody (SProSIG)
>
> Designer and curator, Speech & Language Data Repository (SLDR)
> http://sldr.org
>
> Bol Processor project
> http://bolprocessor.sourceforge.net
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