Are there V6 versions available for verions of php past 5.3.5?
I was looking to upgrade php on one of our servers and was looking at the downloads for php at php.net and did not see a download for a v6 version of the windows binaries and source code.
I checked their archived versions and the latest v6 windows binary that I saw was for 5.3.5.
Did they stop making v6 versions past that?
If not does anyone know where I could get them?
Thanks
we are running apache 2.2 on a 64 bit windows 2008 server box
I checked their archived versions and the latest v6 windows binary that I saw was for 5.3.5.
Did they stop making v6 versions past that?
If not does anyone know where I could get them?
Thanks
we are running apache 2.2 on a 64 bit windows 2008 server box
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I guess you mean PHP 5.3.4... I think you're going to find that you have to upgrade Apache to upgrade PHP. It seems unlikely that they will continue using the VC6 compiler. PHP 5.2 and below are not supported anymore either.
It seems that the compiler versions between the applications are important though I don't actually know why. I do know that you can't take extensions from one major version and use them with another one.
It seems that the compiler versions between the applications are important though I don't actually know why. I do know that you can't take extensions from one major version and use them with another one.
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Do you guys know how to tell for sure what version we have installed?
This is the install file name httpd-2.2.17-win32-x86-ope
This is the install file name httpd-2.2.17-win32-x86-ope
Look at it in phpinfo(), it tells which compiler was used. In the "Configure Command" section, my copy of PHP 5.2.17 shows 'vc6' in several sections. And my copy of XAMPP PHP 5.3.5 says it is compiled by VC6.
On the WAMP download page, it says that all the current versions including PHP 5.3.8 are compiled with VC9 and not to mix them with the old versions that used VC6.
On the WAMP download page, it says that all the current versions including PHP 5.3.8 are compiled with VC9 and not to mix them with the old versions that used VC6.
I should point out that all the hosting companies I have used never upgrade their versions of PHP. If you want a new version, you have to move to a new server. They do that to make sure that they don't break customers code. I still have two servers using PHP 4.4.!
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ok then I guess I have mine compiled with vc 6.
Thanks for all the help.
Thanks for all the help.
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I was afraid that I was going to be stuck with an older version of php unless I upgraded apache, which is probably not going to happen, but it was nice to get the confirmation.
You're welcome. You're not the only one asking about this today. In the current version of WAMP, VC9 is used for all the products.
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I was not looking to change apache versions, just was trying to upgrade php as much as possible so keep everything upgraded to the latest stable version.