The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.2.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features, bug fixes and security enhancements.

The key features of PHP 5.2.0 include:

* New memory manager for the Zend Engine with improved performance and a more accurate memory usage tracking.
* Input filtering extension was added and enabled by default.
* JSON extension was added and enabled by default.
* ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files was introduced.
* Hooks for tracking file upload progress were introduced.
* Introduced E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR error mode.
* Introduced DateTime and DateTimeZone objects with methods to manipulate date/time information.
* Upgraded bundled SQLite, PCRE libraries.
* Upgraded OpenSSL, MySQL and PostgreSQL client libraries for Windows installations.
* Many performance improvements.
* Over 200 bug fixes.

Build note: GD is shared and php-gd required for GD usage.

RHEL 4 compatible packages are available at the following link.

http://mirror.cheetaweb.com/redhat/4ES/i38...386/RPMS.php52/

Excellent! Thank you very much.

Thanks gpan! Works like a charm

I know to use rpm -Uvh however are there any other instructions for installing this on a Pro X machine? I'm getting dependency errors right off the bat. Any particular order I should apply these in? Thanks!

I get dependency errors for mcrypt and mhash. Also, is JSON enabled? or has it been manually disabled.

Alsal, the base post states that...



But I have not verified that myself.

Cheers.

That's just a copy & paste from the PHP 5.2 announcement:

http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_0.php

Doesn't mean these rpm's were compiled with it enabled which is what I found out after I installed it:
'--disable-json' is actually in the configure command. You can see it with phpinfo();

I think I'd better compile my own PHP from now on.

Although there's a pear extension/class for JSON, a client on my machine was requesting the php functions for JSON to get his script working.

I found out JSON is a pecl extension and installed it using
#pecl install json

then I added extension=json.so to my php.ini file - restart apache and it all works dandy.

Thanks GPAN, again your time is much appreciated. But could you please fill me in as to why you had to disable it in the configure command?

If you need sqlite libs (like I did) get them from

http://rpm.involution.com/sqlite3/

will this break squirrel mail

What about php-pear?

Any plans for a redhat 3ES version of your PHP package?

how can I add mcrypt to my php installed by this how-to ?

two!!

Considering they are on a beta 2 for RHEL 5, I wouldn't be too hopeful.

How do we get the php-pear version? I am getting dependency errors for php-pear.

Thanks

Installed the PHP 5.2 packages.
php.ini seems to be okay.
Restarted httpd.
But the browser still shows PHP Version 4.3.9 (phpinfo().

Can anyone help?
Cheers

you have to edit the httpd.conf file and tell it to use php5. You will have to do the same thing for the sites.

Hi Gpam,


i install yours rpm in my box, Ensim X 10.2 rhel 4 php 5.2.0 MySQL 4.1.20 and working ok!!

BUT... in file error_log ( /home/virtual/domain.com/var/log/httpd/error_log ) exist this error



Can anyone help?

You might want to try:

I am running RHEL 4ES, Ensim 4.1.0-8, php 4.3.9, MySQL 4.1.20. My problem is that gd is not working. In trying to cure that, I tried to install php5.

I followed gpan's instructions. It said I needed some libsqlite files so I got them. THen it said php=4.3.9-3.22.3 is needed by php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3.i386

I ran up2date and it finds no updates. I ran up2date php-mysql and it says already updated
I ran up2date php-gd and it says already updated.

I tried to update using yum from http://3ES.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/art/4ES/ and it can't find the address

I need to run GD for Cubecart for a new customer.
I've read hundreds of threads and haven't been able to fix it.

Help anyone?
Thanks

Next, re-run rpm update

That doesn't seem to work for me, I keep getting the following error:
error: Failed dependencies:
php = 4.3.9-3.22.5 is needed by (installed) php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.5.i386


Any suggestions?

error: Failed dependencies:
libsqlite3.so.0 is needed by php-pdo-5.2.0-1.rhel4.ct.i386
?

I search hi and low for the libsqlite3

Now that i got sqlite i am getting the following error.

file /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf from install of php-5.2.0-1.rhel4.ct conflicts with file from package php-4.3.9-3.22.9
file /etc/php.ini from install of php-5.2.0-1.rhel4.ct conflicts with file from package php-4.3.9-3.22.9
file /usr/bin/php from install of php-5.2.0-1.rhel4.ct conflicts with file from package php-4.3.9-3.22.9
file /var/www/icons/php.gif from install of php-5.2.0-1.rhel4.ct conflicts with file from package php-4.3.9-3.22.9

If I need mcrypt towork, what can I do? Is there a way to install it even though gpan doesn't have the rpm for it on his site?

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/libmcrypt/

Thanks, but...



I installed the devel package though. I am missing something else me thinks. I installed gpan's 5.2.0 which has no php-mcrypt rpm. Not sure if this is doable. Except I have a few sites which require it.

Okay, so after another hour or so of searching, I found out how to get mcrypt working even though gpan didn't include an rpm. With a lot of help from http://forum.ensim.com/archive/index.php?t-10029.html here is what I did:

Downloaded the source code for php 5.2.0 to match gpan's RPM's.
Made sure libcrypt was installed from http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/
Downloaded the mcrypt source from sourceforge.

Then built mcrypt with ./configure make and make install.
Then:
cd to php-5.2.0/ext/mcrypt
phpize
aclocal
./configure
make clean
make
make install

Then I add mcrypt.ini to /etc/php.d which contains:
-------
; Enable mbstring extension module
extension=mcrypt.so
-------


Restarted apache and it works great! Thanks skeeter1jd for your push in the right direction. More thorough instructions will appear at my site outofcontrol.ca shortly.