Posted on 24/7/2011, 11:25 am, by Colin Charles, under General.
Try doing yum install php53 on a RHEL 5.6/CentOS 5.6 system, and see the following:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
php53-common-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems
--> php53-common conflicts with php-common
Error: php53-common conflicts with php-common
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Not pleasant right? Seems the only workaround is to issue a yum remove php php-cli php-common, watch the dependencies and reinstall everything. The only thing that seems to be missing? php53-tidy.
Restart Apache (service httpd restart). Update WordPress. If you miss on restarting the web server, it won’t detect the newer PHP install and WordPress will just show you a magical message as follows: “You cannot update because WordPress 3.2.1 requires PHP version 5.2.4 or higher. You are running version 5.1.6.”
Posted on 22/4/2009, 2:03 pm, by Colin Charles, under MySQL.
I caught up with Zach Skyles Owens, a PHP Evangelist at Microsoft. If you missed the embed, watch the video. I have some sparse notes below.
I learned some new things:
Microsoft spends time working with the PHP community
They are porting applications to work with an SQL Server backend
They are ensuring that the language should “just work”, with the IIS and SQL Server stack. This is quite different from the usual AMP (Apache = server, MySQL = database, PHP = language) stack that we’re quite accustomed to.
Drupal for example, is a featured application, for the PHP on IIS stack. If the software allows, it brings in SQL Server Express Edition; otherwise, it even brings in MySQL!
Posted on 5/8/2008, 11:49 pm, by Colin Charles, under General.
Today marks a big day in the history of the Malaysian Government – they’ve released their first fully open source software package, MyMeeting.
Poking around their Trac installation, they use PHP and MySQL 5 (5.0.51a from Ubuntu, even!). Of course their install documentation suggests a lot of Windows usage, but this is a step in the right direction.
Give it a twirl. Report bugs. How many more governments out there are writing and releasing open source software packages? Or is this a first?
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