Downgrading PHP 5.3 to 5.2

[Quasaur]

I need to downgrade the PHP on my Fedora 12 machine from 5.3.1 to 5.2...how do I do this?

---------- Post added at 11:34 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 AM CST ----------

ran 'yum downgrade php php-common php-cli' but can't get lower than 5.3.0.

[CSchwangler]

PHP 5.2 is not in the Fedora repositories. However, you may get it from different sources.

[bvbmedia]

I recommend you to install PHP 5.2 through source.

Before you proceed first make sure you have the right packages installed to compile from source. Probably the easiest way to do it as following:

# stop apache
/etc/init.d/httpd stop

# remove PHP 5.3 RPM
yum remove php
# install packages to compile from source
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install httpd-devel
yum install libxml2-devel
yum install mysql-devel

# download PHP 5.2.13 Source from www.php.net
# after that extract the tar file:
tar -zxvf php-5.2.13.tar.gz
cd php-5.2.13
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local
make
make test (not neccessary)
make install

# hopefully the compilation is succesfully completed
# now copy the default php.ini
cp php.ini-recommended /usr/local/lib/php.ini

# edit php ini
vi /usr/local/lib/php.ini
# change this:
short_open_tag = Off
# to:
short_open_tag = On
# save the document

# edit your Apache http.conf to allow .php files to be parsed
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# add the following lines:
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
# save the document
# restart apache
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Enjoy PHP 5.2.X!

Kind regards,

Bas van Beek

[bvbmedia]

If you are missing some functionalities like Exif and Curl then configure your command as follows:

# installing the additional packages
yum install libcurl libxml2-devel openssl-devel bzip2-devel curl-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel gmp-devel libiconv iconv libxslt-devel libstdc++-devel libmcrypt

# configuring PHP before installing it
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-kerberos=/usr \
--enable-cli \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mbregex \
--enable-sockets \
--with-curl \
--with-openssl=/usr \
--with-xmlrpc \
--with-xsl=/usr \
--with-pear \
--with-iconv \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local \
--with-png-dir=/opt/local \
--with-freetype-dir=/opt/local \

Now proceed the steps that I mentioned in my previous post.

Let me know if it's helping.

Best regards,

Bas van Beek

[Andrew James]

Is there no way to do this with yum? I need to do this with php-mysql and lots of other stuff and the idea of compiling for everything I need does not appeal!

If I choose another repository that has 5.2 but is for maybe fc10 will that work or am I leaving myself open to conflicts.

Thanks,

Andrew

[bvbmedia]

I know what your challenging, believe me.

Using packages from a newer repo is not the right solution. The files are simply not compiled for your FC release.

You can, however, try to manually upgrade your FC release. It's not impossible to update it. But officially it's not supported.

Installing from source is not hard. If you follow my previous post it's even more easy. Just follow the command lines in the right order and you would have a fresh and good compiled version of PHP running in combination with MySQL.

Best Regards,

Bas

[geek4life]

Should I remove the "Development Tools" after I'm done with the install?

---------- Post added at 04:43 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 04:37 AM CDT ----------

Originally Posted by bvbmedia

If you are missing some functionalities like Exif and Curl then configure your command as follows:

# installing the additional packages
yum install libcurl libxml2-devel openssl-devel bzip2-devel curl-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel gmp-devel libiconv iconv libxslt-devel libstdc++-devel libmcrypt

# configuring PHP before installing it
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-kerberos=/usr \
--enable-cli \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--enable-exif \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mbregex \
--enable-sockets \
--with-curl \
--with-openssl=/usr \
--with-xmlrpc \
--with-xsl=/usr \
--with-pear \
--with-iconv \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local \
--with-png-dir=/opt/local \
--with-freetype-dir=/opt/local \

Now proceed the steps that I mentioned in my previous post.

Let me know if it's helping.

Best regards,

Bas van Beek

I tried the above, but I get

configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL's libraries

(I'm running fedora 13)

[bvbmedia]

You could try to install the development package of OpenSSL by running:

yum -y install openssl-devel

Let me know if it helps.

Best regards,

Bas van Beek

---------- Post added at 04:53 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 04:52 PM CDT ----------

Here another 1 line based command for bypassing those issues:

yum -y install libcurl libxml2-devel openssl-devel bzip2-devel curl-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel gmp-devel libiconv iconv libxslt-devel libstdc++-devel libmcrypt freetype-devel freetype libxslt-devel libpng* libjpeg*

[Zanpactou]

What's the big problem with php 5.3.x guys?

Thanks,
Zanpactou

[bvbmedia]

In PHP 5.3 ereg is deprecated. Many old web-applications will fail because of this.

Best Regards,

Bas van Beek
BVB Media

[Zanpactou]

Originally Posted by bvbmedia

In PHP 5.3 ereg is deprecated. Many old web-applications will fail because of this.

Best Regards,

Bas van Beek
BVB Media

OK. Fair enough.
Some other stuff was depreciated too but the depreciated warning for ereg and others was in previous versions before ereg was removed, do people not check their php logs?
Or is it that people can't be bothered with swapping ereg out for one of the safer and faster regular expression functions in the current php release?

Thanks,
Zanpactou

[pmin00]

Originally Posted by Zanpactou

What's the big problem with php 5.3.x guys?

No problems. Just #!#@$ hosting companies
that don't allow you to upgrade