MySQL/PHP Database Applications, 2nd Edition

News

22 Nov 2004:
PHP 5 has been officially released for some time now. There are some changes that have been made since the book was published that may cause some of the examples to break (or seem to break - this is particularly true of the interaction of the new E_STRICT error level and the error-handling code included in the examples).

I've prepared a set of patch files that get the example code running under 5.0.2. (The XML-RPC bonus example is an exception to this at the moment.) These are not guaranteed to fix every possible incompatibility, but they deal with the main ones.

If you are interested in really catching all the changes, add these lines to the header.php file for any particular example:

define('DEBUG', E_ALL);
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

and be prepared to see a lot of complaints in the error log! (Sometimes, especially if the errors occur during the compliation of autoloaded class files, you won't always see the error results in your browser window as would normally be the case for the heavy debugging mode. So be sure to be watching your Apache error log file as well.)

The patch files are available here. You can also download a gzip'd tarball of the directory.

If you come across any additional fixes that you'd like to recommend to others, please let me know. Thanks.

Links

• www.php.net
  The main PHP site. Go here to check on announcements about PHP 5.
• www.zend.com
  The company that sponsors most of the development of PHP.
• pear.php.net
  The main PEAR site. See if they've fixed that bug those bugs in DB yet. ^_^ (Update - yep, they did. Well, that one, at least...)
• www.mysql.com
  The main MySQL site.
• IndexDot
  One of the most useful reference sites I've ever come across. All mysteries of CSS, stylesheets, and (X)HTML revealed.
• www.phpvolcano.com
  A good overview of the new features in PHP 5.
• Fishlib
  A set of LGPL'd PHP classes for PHP 4.3 that sprang from the original PHP code written for the first edition of the book.
• www.phpbuilder.com
  Articles and news about PHP. Warning: jiggling Flash ads may cause eye damage.