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roballen

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Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 07, 2008, 02:02:54 am
Hi,

I am putting together a solution which incorporates CIVICRM but the hosting is PHP4 and upgrade to PHP5 is not currently an option.

Of course this means using 1.8

Therefore - what do you see the issues are regarding using 1.8 in the short, medium and long term

Many Thanks

Rob

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Re: Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 07, 2008, 02:48:14 am
the issues are regarding using 1.8 in the short, medium and long term:

"unsupported"

ie. all the nice new features are not going to be available to you. Same goes for bug fix. Given the cost of a shared hosting, I would strongly suggest you focusing on getting rid of the "php4 only" problem, and go for the latest version.

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Re: Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 07, 2008, 03:10:54 am
Many thanks for the quick reply - ,

ie. all the nice new features are not going to be available to you - We only really need the contacts and the membership so not sure if the new features are going to be relevant - is there something that I should really be picking up on here?

Same goes for bug fix   - It seems very stable to me - are there any critical bugs around?

Given the cost of a shared hosting, I would strongly suggest you focusing on getting rid of the "php4 only" problem, and go for the latest version. - The problem is we want to integrate CiviCRM with other Joomla components that do not work yet in php5 and cannot wait 6 months+ for the other elements to "go PHP5". Also we really don't want to use Joomla in 1.5 legacy mode.

So if we used 1.8 for the moment and did a migration to 2.1 and PHP5 when everything else is compatible (probably 6 to 8 months) what do you think the realistic risks are.

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Re: Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 07, 2008, 12:32:37 pm

In general our policy has been to fix "non-critical" bugs in the next release, so 1.8 did follow the same principle. Not too many bugs qualify as critical :)

My advice would be not to even think about installing on 1.8. Its not worth going down that road

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roballen

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Re: Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 08, 2008, 12:39:43 am
Okay, thanks - I understand the responses - I get exactly the same type of response from the Joomla forums saying we are planning on using 1.0.15

At least now I can put together a roadmap.



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Re: Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 08, 2008, 01:26:54 am

I think the big difference is 1.0.x is still maintained (and supported). CiviCRM v1.8 is neither maintained nor supported

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Re: Using PHP4 and 1.8?
August 08, 2008, 02:07:10 am
Good point
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