PHP Upgrade Issues?

5 posts by 4 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: October 19, 2015   (RSS)

By rconring - October 15, 2015

I have a cloud server on which I intend to upgrade the PHP version from 5.4.40 to 5.5 this weekend.  I have 17 CMSB sites on that server that will be affected by the upgrade.  Are there any known issues that I should be aware of before I pull the trigger on the upgrade.  I would certainly hate to break 17 sites at once.  That could make for a very interesting weekend indeed!

Ron Conring
Conring Automation Services
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By Damon - October 15, 2015

Hi Ron,

There are no issues that I'm aware when the server is upgraded to PHP 5.5.

That said, if you can do the upgrade on a weekday, if there are any issues, we are a phone call or email away. Issues on the weekend would have to wait until Monday.

Cheers,
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By In-House-Logic - October 19, 2015

Hi Ron,

I can largely confirm that. We've made the same change to several sites now and CMSBuilder has behaved well. In our case, we upgraded the CMS and then bumped the PHP library version for each site individually. Before the bump the CMS Admin area does display an alert which has freaked out the occasional client unlucky enough to log in between the two steps. But it goes away once PHP 5.5.x is invoked.

We have had some issues with certain sites when moving from earlier versions of PHP, but these were with out own code using deprecated PHP $_http_server_vars[], etc. Easily corrected and not caused by CMSBuilder.

Best of luck!

Jayme

By Dave - October 19, 2015

Also, make sure you're running the latest CMSB (version 2.65) as it has all the latest PHP fixes.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com