PLEASE READ: PHP bugs prevent proper function of Joomla! 1.5
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:31 am
Some versions of PHP have bugs which prevent Joomla! 1.5 to function properly. Please make sure to use other versions than those mentioned in the postings below.
There is an important bug in PHP 4.4.2 that makes PHP crash when the
system tries to open an URL using the fopen streams functions. A more
detailed description of this bug can be found here :
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36017
How does this affect Joomla! ?
For 1.0 the problems are small
- Newsfeeds will not work
- Any other third party functions that are using fopen, fclose, fread,
file_get_contents etc with a remote file will not work
For 1.5 the problems are more severe
- The whole FTP layer will stop working
- Newsfeeds will not work
- Helpsites fetching will not work
There are no workarounds for this problem, besides installing PHP 4.4.1
or waiting until 4.4.3 comes out.
Thanks to Johan for the report on this. Regards Robin
There is an important bug in PHP 4.4.2 that makes PHP crash when the
system tries to open an URL using the fopen streams functions. A more
detailed description of this bug can be found here :
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36017
How does this affect Joomla! ?
For 1.0 the problems are small
- Newsfeeds will not work
- Any other third party functions that are using fopen, fclose, fread,
file_get_contents etc with a remote file will not work
For 1.5 the problems are more severe
- The whole FTP layer will stop working
- Newsfeeds will not work
- Helpsites fetching will not work
There are no workarounds for this problem, besides installing PHP 4.4.1
or waiting until 4.4.3 comes out.
Thanks to Johan for the report on this. Regards Robin