Install of 1.3.0.1 complains about php4 version 4.3.10-16

Hello,

I'm running zc_install from 1.3.0.1 on a box running the Debian unix stable release. It reports:
Warning: Problems Found

• PHP Version not supported

catalog-1.3.0.1/zc_install/techsupp.php reports:

Server Info
* Webserver: Apache/1.3.33 Ben-SSL/1.55 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16
* Server Free Disk Space Reported = 0.67 GB
* MySQL Version Reported =
* PHP MySQL Support = ON
* PHP PostGres SQL Support = OFF
PHP Info
* PHP version: 4.3.10-16

I'd prefer not to upgrade the php4 because I'd have to go to version 4.4.2. FWIW the mysql installed is 4.0.24-10sarge1.

Is it normal for the "MySQL Version" to go unreported?
How can I complete this install?

Thanks.

I'd prefer not to upgrade the php4 because I'd have to go to version 4.4.2.

This is what I would recommend actually, since PHP v4.3.10 could have some missing routines in order to be fully compatible with the latest versions of mySQL that has been released lately.

Thanks, but I was hoping to avoid upgrading several packages and I'd prefer not to move on to the latest version 5 of mysql. If I upgrade the php4 to 4.4.2-1 I'd have to also upgrade the apache web server, the curl library, libc6 and others; in total about 20 packages. I'm sure it would all work but it's not my first choice for a publicly available machine :-)

The message said "consider": "PHP Version = 4.3.10-16 {You should consider upgrading!}".
Do we know that Zen Cart won't work, or can't be made to work, with 4.3.10? What fails?

Thanks.

What fails?

The compatibility between an older version of PHP and recent releases of mySQL. Which is why, a PHP upgrade would strongly be advised in order have great stability within zencart (especially if you intend to install mySQL v5). Otherwise, you could end up with desastrous results. ;)

TheOracle:

The compatibility between an older version of PHP and recent releases of mySQL.

Thanks for the prompt replies Oracle :-), but since the Zen Cart installation isn't yet recommending mysql v5, and since both php4 v4.3.10-16 and mysql v4.0.24-10 are in Debian stable there are unlikely to be compatibility issues between them. But, naturally, I could be wrong ... and since Zen Cart isn't being maintained in Debian I am doubtless unaware of untold version-compatibility horrors.

The immediate problem here seems to be that Zen Cart doesn't recognise Debian's numbering scheme: corrections to php4 version 4.3.10 would not be released as version 4.3.11, instead as 4.3.10-1 or, in the case of multiple corrections to php4, 4.3.10-16 :-).

From a websearch of the old Zen Cart forum I found the fix:

a.polli
Posted: May 2 2006, 03:39 PM
QUOTE (a.polli @ May 2 2006, 02:34 PM)
I have a similar problem with zencart V1.3.0.1

Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16

I have only the 'PHP Version not supported' warning
and if I click 'Install' I am redirect to the same page and the installation don't proceed.

in zc_install/includes/modules/pages/inspect/header_php.php
at the PHP Version Check
if the version is not correct it raises an error
then it can't proceed to the system_setup page

I change

elseif (phpversion() < "4.3.2" && phpversion() != "4.3.11" && phpversion() != "4.3.10" ) {

with

elseif (phpversion() < "4.3.2" && phpversion() != "4.3.11" && phpversion() != "4.3.10" && phpversion() != "4.3.10-16") {

and now I can install zen cart!

Ah ! I understand what you were trying to do now. Glad you found the answer you were looking for.

I have Zen Cart v1.3.0.1 running fine on a Fedora box with the following:

Server OS: Linux 2.6.5-1.358
Database: MySQL 3.23.58
PHP Version: 4.3.10 (Zend: 1.3.0)
HTTP Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora)

It's a clean install used for sandboxing. Not sure why you have problems with the same PHP version. :huh:

Database: MySQL 3.23.58

Because you have a lower version of mySQL with a lower version of PHP 4 (almost last year if it isn't a whole year already. ;)).

lib99:

I have Zen Cart v1.3.0.1 running fine on a Fedora box with the following:

Server OS: Linux 2.6.5-1.358
Database: MySQL 3.23.58
PHP Version: 4.3.10 (Zend: 1.3.0)
HTTP Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora)

It's a clean install used for sandboxing. Not sure why you have problems with the same PHP version. :huh:

The reason is that Debian provides security updates, thus the 4.3.10-16. Zen Cart tests for an exact string match to 4.3.10, so the added "-16" doesn't exactly match "4.3.10".

I fixed the problem by editing catalog/zc_install/includes/modules/pages/inspect/header_php ... about line 222, from:

} elseif (phpversion() < "4.3.2" && phpversion() != "4.3.11" && phpversion() != "4.3.10") {

to:

} elseif (phpversion() < "4.3.2" && phpversion() != "4.3.11" && phpversion() != "4.3.10") && phpversion() != "4.3.10-16") {

I believe this is where the problem lies, but am not sure what to change if anything so that I don't get the "You need to enable PHP Session support on your webserver. You might try installing this module: php4-session" error.

//PHP Version Check
if (phpversion()=="4.1.2") {
$php_ver = "<span class='errors'>".phpversion().' {'. SHOULD_UPGRADE . '}</span>';
$zc_install->error = true;
$err_text = ERROR_TEXT_4_1_2;
$err_code = ERROR_CODE_4_1_2;
$this_class = 'WARN';
} elseif (phpversion() < "4.1.2") {
$php_ver = "<span class='errors'>".phpversion().' {'. MUST_UPGRADE . '}</span>';
$zc_install->error = true;
$zc_install->fatal_error = true;
$err_text = ERROR_TEXT_PHP_VERSION;
$err_code = ERROR_CODE_PHP_VERSION;
$this_class = 'FAIL';
} else {
$php_ver = phpversion();
$this_class = 'OK';
}

Any suggestions on this one?
Thanks

Angelia,

Your comment is unrelated to the earlier posts in this particular thread. (They're talking about the detection of the version of PHP, not session-support).

I've answered your post here: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=201660#post201660

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EDITED: Do not advertise on the forums ...

nepton:

I will offer you assistants, but due to the rules of no advertising on this forum all I can do is offer you a link to my web services site.

-Nepton

Let me borrow some words from DrByte,

Your comments in many threads are unrelated to those posts in those particular threads.

(Please do the right thing in the right place. And don't too much! :wink2: )