Fixing Drupal 4.7.x to run on PHP 5.2.1

Tue, 05/22/2007 - 18:53 — Christoph C. Cemper

Let’s make this short.

Upgrades suck. And if admins force you into an upgrade (of PHP) it even more sucks.

In fact it was driving me nuts the whole afternoon. Just after a 12 hour outage thanks to ServerSupportGuys

Worst would be having to upgrade applications (like drupal) just because your admins or security team “recommend”

php5 but are unable to make the system run on PHP4 just as it did the day before.

So if your Drupal-site’s session handle is broken – means right after login you are logged out again,

then check out this page and make sure you add that one like

one line fix wrote:

register_shutdown_function(‘session_write_close’);

to all settings.php files required – and the whole crap works again.

I think somebody should pay me for wasting my time the whole afternoon for crap like this.

Instead I am paying system administrators to force me having to do security updates,

then later force me to mess around like I did the whole day – something’s really wrong here.

[end of bitching post, I know I should hire somebody to mess around with this crap]

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Sun, 06/17/2007 - 08:32 — Christoph C. Cemper

it seems new PHP version causes hassles once again,
judging from this blog

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