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Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

justgoodcars — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:03:27 GMT

No problem, to clear things up, we are developing some new ASP.NET sites for some of our travel services, but as the sites are not live it seemed silly putting anything about it on my signature, and as I am the owner of a few bsuinesses I always look at the opportunity to fill out my profile, also being a PHP thread it didnt seem strange to have it as the car site is based on it.

Cheers

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

Rovastar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:13:23 GMT

Sorry if I made a mistake. Like has been stated your name/link/generic sounding comments imply spam. Also the site you link to isn't even running IIS which is what finally convinced me!

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

Cellar Dweller — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:19:44 GMT

He stated what he did because of your name used and the link used within your posts. Most forums have issues with SPAM. Seeing your name and your included link points to such so I'm sure it was a mistake on his part.

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

justgoodcars — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:38:04 GMT

Get your fact right Rovastar, I am new to the forums and I am just made a simple comment. With idiots like you it makes it hard to feel comfortable to contribute as you will just scrutinize anything I have to say. Sorry to interupt the post everyone.

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

hydn — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:01:15 GMT

the output of the 500 error is reported in my earlier post.

I'm hoping eA comes nts for php 5.3 because its def faster, even via file cache. I prefered xc and apc fore the var caching but I've been using memcache.dll for that.

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

JulienTLD — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:53:44 GMT

Pierre, for information for your debugging of APC-dev, with apc.stat=0, PHPMyadmin do not return more a fatal error but now a FastCGI HTTP 500 Error. After a refresh of the page, it's run fine. Strange...

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

JulienTLD — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:48:21 GMT

hydn, I just tried apc.stat=0 and in effect, caching is ok now. PHP scripts are correctly added to the list now. It seems to be fast but hard to say on my local server. A good test will be on my production server... What about a final version of APC for PHP 5.3 ? ;)

For this test, in my php.ini, I do not add any settings for APC. I use default settings (except extension=php_apc.dll).

For information, actually on my production server, I use eAccelerator (from sitebuddy.com) with PHP 5.2.9 TS and it is very fast. Before migrating to PHP 5.3, I wait eA 0.9.6 binaries to see if it runs better than this APC release.

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

hydn — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:09:01 GMT

Oh haha. I just read your message correctly. Thats who it started for me to. Change apc.stat = 0 and it will start caching but in my case that caused random blank pages and also fast cgi errors.

It's NOT working if you only have two cached pages.

Good luck!

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

hydn — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:04:09 GMT

What were your apc settings in php.ini. Maybe I did something wrong?

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

JulienTLD — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:20:26 GMT

Hi,

I just tried APC 3.1.3-dev provided by Pierre with the NTS VC9 x86 release of PHP 5.3.0 (php_apc-trunk-20090717-5.3-nts-vc9-x86.zip) under my IIS 6.0 + FastCGI 1.0 webserver.

I do not obtain any errors with my main website. It seems to run fine except that only 2 scripts appear on the StatsSystem Cache Entries page of apc.php. The two scripts are apc.php and the last php page I have opened. Do not know it it is normal that others scripts disapear...

With the same config, PHPMyAdmin returns the error Fatal error: Call to undefined function PMA_getenv().

Just a question Pierre, what do you exactly mean by "Added ACL Cache support on Windows" in th news.txt file of PHP 5.3.0 ? ACL ??

Bye.

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

Rovastar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:43:09 GMT

What I want to know is when the 64 bit version will be out? Surely this the the most needed feature (for admin at least) in 2009.

There are implied links in the http://windows.php.net/download/#php-5.3-ts-VC9-x64 in the dropdown but the don't go anywhere.

Oh someone delete the spammer justgoodcars

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

justgoodcars — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:21:40 GMT

This is good news, there are some new features on there I have been waiting for.

Strange I dont normally miss when the updates come out :)

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

hydn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:14:22 GMT

Thanks Pierre. I tested that on Monday but can't get it to work:

apc.stat = 1 results in blank pages and apc.stat = 0 results in blank pages plus fastcgi errors: [error Number: -2147467259 (0x80004005)]

I thought it should (choice of words due to sites like: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_APC_in_Windows which report blank pages issues with setting of 0) be the other way around where apc.stat = 0 results in blank pages and apc.stat = 1 works.

As you said not compatible with 5.3 yet for sure. I've been using xcache's trunk for 5.3 here (100% stable thus far.):
http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/snapshots/trunk-r653/

The only issue I have with both xc and apc where for many eacelerator becomes the choice is that they don't allow caching to the file system instead of only shared memory. This is useful in eA because unlike apc and xc you will not end up with multiple instances of xcache running or more importantly RELOADING with fast-cgi's processes.

Plus, all of the duplicate caches use the same settings in php.ini and since php-cgi.exe are set to recycle it means the cache is cleared very often of our box and thus we await eacelerator which caches to the file system (eg. e:\cache\ea ) we have a 128GB solid state drive which we use for eA.

My main interest on Monday was to see if there was a file caching option.

Online discussions confirm that NTS PHP is a bit faster on avg over PHP TS (without any opcode caching). Since, eA thus fast comes only thread safe it been a draw back. So we have xcache still running as we would like to stick with the NTS php install.

Hopefully Bart's eA updates for 5.3 will include a nts solution.

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

pierrejoye — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:14:33 GMT

For APC, you can fetch it here:

http://downloads.php.net/pierre/php_apc-trunk-20090717-5.3-nts-vc9-x86.zip

There is no release yet for APC with full support of 5.3.0, this is a SVN snaphost build.

Cheers,

Re: PHP 5.3.0 released!

hydn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:14:23 GMT

In the last 2 days both APC and xcache has release 5.3 versions for win32 (IIS)

I've been testing. Awaiting eA which will be ready within a week.