Pre HyperText Processor - PHP
Please Note: Wings has migrated to the latest stable version
of PHP 5
The PHP development team announced that support for PHP 4 ceased at the end of
2007. There will be no more releases of PHP 4.4.
Please note that updating code is the responsibility of the
information provider. The Wings Team has limited resources to
troubleshoot and update code. To aid in testing and migration, developers should review the PHP 5
migration guide:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php
We are providing a test environment where PHP developers can test their
code in the new environment before it goes production. To test your
code, append a colon (:) followed by the port number 8081 (or 9443 for
https) after the hostname portion of your URL. For example:
http://wings.buffalo.edu:8081/directory/subdirectory
http://yourvirtualhost.buffalo.edu:8081/directory/subdirectory
*****Note that there is a different port for SSL secure connections:
https://wings.buffalo.edu:9443/directory/subdirectory
http://yourvirtualhost.buffalo.edu:9443/directory/subdirectory
We will also be upgrading all currently installed PHP modules to their respective latest versions.
Currently, the following version of PHP and modules are installed:
- PHP 4.4.4
- GD v1.2
- MySQL v3.23.49 (Note: MySQL database software is not installed on Wings.)
- Oci8 v3.23.49 (for Oracle 10.1)
We will be upgrading to the following:
- PHP 5.2.5
- GD bundled version, compatible with 2.0.34
- MySQL 5.0.51a (Note: MySQL database software will NOT be installed on Wings as part of this upgrade.)
- Mcrypt 2.5.8 (this is new for wings)
- Oci8 v1.2.4 (for Oracle 10.2)
For security reasons, we will be changing the current setting of
register_globals from 'on' to the recommended setting of 'off'. For
more information regarding how this may affect your PHP code, please
see:
http://www.php.net/register_globals
One other change to note from our PHP 4 environment to PHP 5 -- in our
installation of PHP 4 "magic quotes" were enabled. This is now
deprecated and turned off in our PHP 5 environment. Magic quotes will
be removed altogehter as of PHP 6.0. Relying on this feature is
highly discouraged:
http://us.php.net/magic_quotes