PHP 4 end of life announcement was made a few days ago at http://php.net/ - no more updates after 2007-12-31. So I expect most providers will force php5 upgrades in December. Hopefully ez 4.0 will be ready before then so we can have some time to migrate. Good luck to all the ez coders working hard on this.

Matthew

I've gone through this topic like 5 times... I'm sorry guys, maybe it's my head or my English, but I still don't grasp what's going to happen within the next months and what versions or ports we should be preparing ourselves for. Even if someone of you is right, I got lost with who to listen to. And now, since the PHP4 rumor has become an official news, could someone from eZ systems clear this all up? What's the relations between: PHP4, PHP5, eZ 3.10, eZ 4.0... ? A time frame would be also greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Modified on Tuesday 17 July 2007 2:49:22 pm by Piotrek Karaś

http://ez.no/community/news/community_newsletter_7_15th_june_2007

Not that php4 is dead, but it starts smelling funny:

http://www.php.net/index.php#2007-07-13-1

"The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5."

Hi all,

I saw this site linked today through a supplier we use: http://gophp5.org and thought it was worth sharing.

I have faith in the eZ team to get this out this year now that Paul and Kristof are on board. I hope that we can get access to alpha,beta versions a few months before the end of the year though

Paul

Hi all,

I'm new to eZ Publish and I like it very much.
I think it's a great software.
We're planning to use the eZ Publish for our company website.

Regarding the next eZ Publish version 4, which will be based on PHP5.
Any info on the minimum PHP5 version required?
This info will greatly help my development team to prepare better, should we decide to wait for eZ Publish 4.

Thank you.

I think it is safe to asume the same minimum version as the components based on the information published so far... So PHP 5.1.1 is the minimum.

Dear Andre,

Thank you very much for the quick response.
This info is very valuable for me & my development team.
I hope eZ Publish 4.0 can be released soon

God bless.

You can already download the pre alpha code from svn.
It's quite stable, so you shouldn't have any problems starting the development with it:
http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/unstable/2007-03-21-php5/

Expect more info on eZ Publish 4.0 within approximately a week..

EDIT:
News about eZ Publish 4.0:
http://ez.no/developer/news/ez_publish_4_0

News about eZ Publish 4.0 alpha2:
http://ez.no/developer/news/ez_publish_4_0_alpha2_released

New svn location:
http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk/

Expect beta1 within a week (now: 1. Nov 2007)

Modified on Thursday 01 November 2007 3:16:11 pm by André R.

Hi,

So like others , We are feeling the PHP5 pressure to, we have a project that integrates ezpublish to a Captive portal developed for php5 , both ezpublish and captive portal will run on the same server, as upgrading to ezp 4 can solve the issue of php5 ,

We would like to know from you at present time, which are common issues upgrading from ezp3.9.3 to ezpublish 4

I have read that first we should upgrade to 3.10.x , then to ezp4 , I have also read issues related to MySQL 4.1.x , so it seems like upgrading to mysql 5 is a good idea

Some other questions are :

Our site will have portuguese and english version ,

any problem with upgrading multilingual sites ?

Any problem with ezwebin ?,

I guess that as ezwebin is non php development, shouldn't be any problem with it ? , but I would like to know of issues with ezwebin for 3.x running on ezp 4.x

Regards

As for mysql: I think Xavier was talking about trouble with upgrading from (mysql) 4.0 to anything higher. But I'll let him fill in the details on that.

Multilingual: None that I know of, but you should be aware that:
1. your urls will change unless you set the url type to urlalias_compat
2. Firefox does not display urls nicely if you use the default urlalias type ( urlalias_iri )

ezwebin:There is some php (template operators) code in ezwebin, so you should update it to the one that comes with 4.0.

Modified on Friday 09 November 2007 2:44:33 pm by André R.

Most of the translation (.ts) files are currently completely missing in 3.10 and 4.0. That will cause problems upgrading, since if there are no translations in your language the correct language won't be displayed in many places:

http://issues.ez.no/11814

Matthew

Hi,

Can you please tell me what would be the major changes in ez version 4 which would be supporting PHP5.

I am currently developing a CMS solution on the version 3.9.x of ezpublish, but due to some infrastructure considerations I would like to upgrade to PHP 5 as soon as possible. I need to know what the migration effort would be and if there would be any sort of upgrade script provided to help me migrate from ez 3 to ez 4?

Thanks,
Arun

4.0 is a php 5 port of 3.10, so the upgrade from 3.10 to 4.0 does not require database changes or upgrade scripts. However, there are a number of changes between the 3.9 and 3.10 branches.

I suggest you upgrade the development of your site to the 3.10 branch now, to enable easy migration to 4.0 when it is released.

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgra...grading_to_3_10/from_3_9_x_to_3_10_0
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgra...pgrading_to_4_0/from_3_10_0_to_4_0_0

Matthew

The general rule of thumb is; If you are doing a new project make sure it is on eZ 4.0

PHP 4 is end of life so... in reality eZ 3 series is not for new projects.

We are developing a website for one of our clients using eZ Publish 3.9.3 and have to migrate to PHP5. We want to find out about the effort involved in migrating eZ Publish from 3.9.3 to 4.0 (as it is supposed to work with PHP5). Currently we are using the extension “Oracle Database 1.4” as the DB is Oracle.

Here is the list of questions we have
1. What is the exact timeline for the production release of eZ Publish 4.0 (currently road map states early 2008)? If the timeline is not known now, Can we get an idea by when the exact timelines will be made official?

2. Will Oracle be supported by eZ Publish 4.0, as it is stated in the migration steps from 3.10 to 4.0 as “The eZ Publish Extension for Oracle® Database v1.5 and earlier (plus the upcoming version 1.6) do not work with eZ Publish 4.0.0 alpha2. Do not upgrade to 4.0 if your site makes use of this extension.” (mentioned in the URL - http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/upgra...grading_to_4_0/from_3_10_0_to_4_0_0)

3. Currently we are in the development phase of the project, given the tentative timeline of 4.0 release, what should be the recommended approach? Should we upgrade to 3.10.0 and go to production and then think of upgrading to 4.0? Or we upgrade to 4.0 and then go to production?

Any response to the above questions will be highly appreciated.

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