Running Mambo with PHP 5.3

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Hi there, since the release the PHP 5.3, users with this release have been experiencing issues with Mambo, we are working on fix this issues, this post is a guide of how to run Mambo 4.6.5 over PHP 5.3 while the next bug fixing minor release is out ( for those experienced and edege users the nightly build is also available )

error reporting

set your error reporting at php.ini to:

E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED

file includes/database.php

around the line 790, change it from:

PHP Code:

class mosDBTable extends mosDBAbstractRow {
    /** @var mosDatabase Database connector */
    var $_db = null;

    /**
     *    @return bool True if DB query failed.  Sets the error message
     */
    function queryTestFailure () { 


to:

PHP Code:

class mosDBTable extends mosDBAbstractRow {
    /** @var mosDatabase Database connector */
    var $_db = null;

    function mosDBTable ($table='', $keyname='id', $db='') {
        $this->mosDBAbstractRow($table, $keyname, $db);
    }

    /**
     *    @return bool True if DB query failed.  Sets the error message
     */
    function queryTestFailure () { 


file includes/Cache/Lite/Function.php

around the line 72, change it from :

PHP Code:

function call()
{
    $arguments = func_get_args(); 


to:

PHP Code:

function call()
{
    $arguments = func_get_args();
    $numargs = func_num_args();

    for($i=1; $i < $numargs; $i++){
        $arguments[$i] = &$arguments[$i];
    } 


there would be more issues, so please help us testing Mambo on PHP 5.3, this post will be updated as soon as new issues appear.

note:
If you find a new issue please report it here http://mambo-developer.org/tracker/i...ls&task_id=461