[Isis-users] ABCD and PHP5.3

[spinaker]

Egbert

One of the problems of metasearch can be solved  if you edit the 
metasearch parameters and
where it says  %HOST% replace by the full host address
There is another problem in Windows and has to do with  Yaz.dll (used by 
Z39.50)
This Yaz has to be compiled for the specific version of PHP you have 
installed
we are working with Diego preparing some instructions explaining the 
problem and how to fix it

Ernesto

El 24/11/2011 14:27, De Smet Egbert escribió:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have been experimenting with running ABCD in a PHP5.3 installation. PHP5.3 is out for quite some time now, comes by definition with any newer Linux installation and is e.g. also part of the newer WAMP-installations in Windows.Therefore we cannot afford sticking with PHP5.2 for long anymore, for sure.
> Anybody else has been testing this and if so, with which results ?
>
> I could give a more detailed report, but basically my finding is this : all of ABCD can work well, except the Site, where the metasearch (or the link to the filter-screen) results into empty screens due to a problem with the XML2tree library.
> Mostly I had to work on the following, testing with PHP5.3.5 (but more testing will be necessary) :
> - replace deprecated functions 'eregi' and 'split' by resp. mb_ereg() and 'explode()' in all scripts (mb_ereg however is also not accepted in all PHP-versions it seems... another example of the problematic PHP development).
> - some smaller problems about undefined 'set-offs' (unexisting indexed of arrays) had to be solved or avoided
> - php.ini settings are crucial and sensitive but can be transferred from the PHP5.2 one
> - only the Site page is still problematic by resulting in empty pages when clicking on 'Search' or 'Filter'. As far as we can see this is due to a different result from the XML-parser in XML2tree.
> This last problem is a major one as the Site is probably the most visible part of ABCD - to the end-users that is.
> Any help or suggestions on how to tackle that problem would be most welcome...
> It would be nice if we could prepare for a version 2.0 which is also PHP5.3 compatible !
>
>
> Egbert de Smet
> Universiteit Antwerpen
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