Comments on: PHP 5.1 Released

By: James Coder

James Coder — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:11:48 +0000

One feature I really like is the new ini setting allow_url_include.
This means that the old setting allow_url_fopen won’t cover remote includes any more. Hardly anyone needs to use remote includes, and they are pivotal in XSS attacks - but it’s a shame to inhibit reading of remote information just to prevent remote includes. Cheers for the php devteam.

By: realmsurfer

realmsurfer — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:36:36 +0000

Hopefully now a few more hosting companies will finally start to support PHP5.

By: mjackson42

mjackson42 — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:34:00 +0000

Yes, latest copy of phpBB:

“Your installation is up to date, no updates are available for your version of phpBB.”

I’ll try it again with PHP 5.1.1.

By: Eric.Coleman

Eric.Coleman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:53:24 +0000

mjackson:

Are you keeping up 2 date with phpBB? I had an installation of phpBB and it seemed to work fine.

By: Eric.Coleman

Eric.Coleman — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:52:58 +0000

5.1.1 is out now. Upgrade, a bunch of regressions were fixed :)

And if you aren’t on internals, it was a fun time last week. Plenty of flaming :)

By: mjackson42

mjackson42 — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:30:25 +0000

I installed PHP 5.1 last week, and it broke phpBB (which I’ve been using for several years, and desperately want to replace but don’t want to disrupt the community I’ve developed). Specifically, I could not log in - no errors, just no login. My guess is something with the date-checking. I’ll wait for 5.1.1

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:03:45 +0000

Hmm, I’m using PHP 5.1 beta on my public server since july and finally will update it to stable version. Great news!

By: Nico Edtinger

Nico Edtinger — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:24:16 +0000

If you’re using a class called Date or Timezone wait ’till next week. 5.1.1 should be release on Monday.

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