More on PHP update
Downloaded the latest PHP (5.3.14), in which all extensions are now included, but it has it’s own obstacles: WordPress 2.6.3 can no longer connect to the database; I ran into something similar when I tried to bypass the mysql extension in favour of the more modern myslqi one, where WP signaled it missed an extension…No message of that kind in this case, but a database connection cannot be established…
Not such a big deal – WP 3.4.1 is on the shelves to be rolled in – when PHP 5.3 works.
So I continued testing.
Not that it mattered much: I got the very same issue: missing end-tags at EOF, on the every first file that is ‘required’ in the code on index.php:
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>
wp-blog-header.php is indeed the file that PHP 3.4 complains about:
<?php
/**
* Loads the WordPress environment and template.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {
$wp_did_header = true;
require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );
wp();
require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' );
}
Indeed: no end-tage here.
Since all files originate from Unix, the WP files are all in Stream-LF format. It may cause an issue with PHP 5.4 (where, I think, it should not), but since I noted other problems with this function elsewhere (wget…), Mark suggested to convert the file to variable format, since that would bypass the mmap function.
So I did, for this file. It could mean the next file (wp-load.php) would cause the problem with a missing end-tag. But alas. The converted file did no longer cause the error on this file, but neither did wp-load.php: the contents of wp-blog-header.php are not interpreted, just presented as normal output….
Not exactly what is to be expected.
We’re getting on….Mark will set up an Alpha 8.3 box and try for himself. (I guess he’s working on 8.4 on Alpha, or on an Itanium box?). I’ll try on my 8.4 box as well. Perhaps it is an 8.3 issue ….