UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? PHP and PHP3, need some serious help

I figured, for the heck of it, I'd try and give the PHP version a try. Especially since I use PHP for some of my own database manipulation (albeit at a much lower level of intensity).

Anyway, here's the problem. When I use PHP on my site hosted at Pair, I have to use extension of php3, not simply php. If I use just php, it treats it as a text file. Given that, I went through and renamed all the files to php3. Of course I ran into other problems since the code inside references php as well. So, I figured I'd change some of that too, a few functions at least. Got a little further. Then ran into a new problem noted below:

Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function preg_match() in main.inc.php3 on line 205

I don't know if this simply means I must go through each and every one of the scripts and change all references to .php to .php3 or not. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on here, or maybe tell me a way to somehow make it look like .php is really .php3 (or some facisimile thereof). I could contact Pair and ask about PHP, but seeing that I've not had the greatest response of late to other problems, I thought I'd check here since more people see to actually participate and provide this help.

Danbo
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You should talk to Pair. If the file extensions are set correctly in Apache (or your web server settings) it will know to execute it as PHP. It's fairly simple for them (or you) to do. It's worth it to at least ask []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/]

The extension is a matter of a config option in their server setup. You could ask to see if they will map the .php extension just like .php3. The preg_match issue is a bit of a more serious issue. This means that they don't have the php compiled to support PCRE so it won't support a good portion of the regular expressions used.

I would actually ask them when they plan on offering PHP4.

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Scream
WWWThreads Developer

this worked for me:

1. create a blank txt file with the following in it:
ADDTYPE X-MAPP-PHP3 .PHP
2. save it as ".htaccess"
3. put this file into your root directory
done

flint

bash-2.01$ cat .htaccess
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php
bash-2.01$

unfortunately I get other error messages running wwwthreads

Also here are pair's instructions on how to install php4, but also did not work

http://www.vttrains.com/phphelp/
http://www.sunwire.com/php/php_install.html