[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #11832: Find out if Drupal 6 can run on PHP-5.6
- From: "jprostko" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:01:18 -0000
#11832: Find out if Drupal 6 can run on PHP-5.6
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Reporter: zooey | Owner: haiku-sysadmin
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Sys-Admin | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jprostko):
I haven't tried yet, but Drupal 6 will likely not work with PHP 5.6. I
maxed out all of my Drupal 6 installations to PHP 5.3.29, since tons of
things break with PHP 5.4, and you get lots of strict warnings (which you
can get around using something like the
[http://drupal.org/project/disable_messages Disable Messages] module or
modifying the E_STRICT error reporting in php.ini). The main issue isn't
necessarily Drupal 6 itself, but contributed modules will often show
problems where they outright destroy the page layout by them breaking, and
perhaps doing much worse than that.
You can go through and update the code to work with more recent versions
of PHP, but naturally this is a lot of work. I was actually going to go
through my site at work to do this, but never did, assuming I'd just wait
to update PHP once I migrate to Drupal 7 or 8 (or another CMS).
If you want though, I can try to do a vanilla installation of Drupal on
PHP 5.6. I suspect it will not work well or at all though. If it does, I
can check to see if Haiku's current site implementation will work with PHP
5.6 or not.
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