Standalone testing

[Chris Burgess]

Hi, just installed 2.1-SVN as standalone this morning. A couple of things I noticed.

1. The installer still claims 5.2.1 is required, although 5.2.0 appears to work fine. Debian stable is at 5.2.0 (with security fixes). Unless 5.2.1 is *really* required, I would recommend we update install.php to check only for the major version; we run the risk of having people not try out 2.1 (because they think it won't work on their PHP, when in fact it works fine) or - worse - having them break a PHP install trying to upgrade when there was no need to do so. This was raised at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4430.0.html but I don't think a bug was opened.

2. I sent an email to a contact who does not have an email address configured. On first submission, I didn't think to fill out the email address in the box provided. CiviCRM prompted me to enter the email address, and I did so. When viewing the sent email in the contact's Activity history, the "To" field says "Array" rather than the email address used.

[Chris Burgess]

Re (2) above, I am impressed to see that CiviCRM has thoughtfully recorded the email address I used against the contact I used it for.

Cool

Generally looks really good, guys. Haven't had much of a chance to thrash it yet ...

[Donald Lobo]

1. The installer still claims 5.2.1 is required, although 5.2.0 appears to work fine. Debian stable is at 5.2.0 (with security fixes). Unless 5.2.1 is *really* required, I would recommend we update install.php to check only for the major version; we run the risk of having people not try out 2.1 (because they think it won't work on their PHP, when in fact it works fine) or - worse - having them break a PHP install trying to upgrade when there was no need to do so. This was raised at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4430.0.html but I don't think a bug was opened.

there are a couple of functions which are in php 5.2.1 which we use. i dont remember the function name(s) right now

lobo

[Chris Burgess]

Unless you're doing things with SWF / ming that I'm not aware of, looks like those would have to be stream_socket_shutdown() or sys_get_temp_dir().

I can't find either of those functions in CiviCRM 2.1-SVN r18583.

 * Full list of functions in PHP 5.2.x

Looks like the 5.2.1 requirement came in at r15437 - http://fisheye.civicrm.org/browse/~raw,r=15437/CiviCRM/trunk/install/index.php

[Chris Burgess]

Have opened a ticket and added a patch.

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3919