[Isis-users] ABCD and PHP5.3

[De Smet Egbert]

One more comment on running ABCD with WAMP :
I was successfully of running it with an 'alias' (in the alias-folder), which is very much handy as it can co-exist with other websites under the Apache-server), but except for iah. There I get a complaint that cgi-bin/wxis cannot be found.
The alias-file re-defines the DocumentRoot of Apache as well as the cgi-bin folder as ScriptAlias, referring to resp. /ABCD/www/htdocs and /ABCD/www/cgi-bin.

If anybody succeeded in also running iah (OPAC) with a WAMP-alias, very much interested here...

Egbert de Smet
Universiteit Antwerpen
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:27 PM
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Subject: [Isis-users] ABCD and PHP5.3

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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