We have (finally) upgraded to php 5.x from 4.x . The problem is that one of the third-party modules we use doesn't load.
vis:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/somewhere/ext/myapp.so' - /somewhere/ext/myapp.so: undefined symbol: compiler_globals
Unfortunately, we do not have the source for the app, so are unable to recompile it. Is there a way to fake it out to run on php 5.x, or are we stuck in 4.x land forever?
thanx, dar7yl
i doubt so. the only thing you could do is to have php 5 and php 4 running in parallel. php 5 script would then need to call php 4 scripts to use the functions from that module. but it would be really very ugly hack.
If you told us what the module was we might be able to offer better advice.
The only thing I can think of is either re-write it or run a php4 instance just to run this module. It seem to be reasonably easy to get php4 and php5 running on the same host with different file extensions however I don't know how well using the modules from one to another will work.
You can run php5 and php4 on the same server.
Running Apache2 With PHP5 And PHP4 At The Same Time
That might be a solution for you while you figure out how to get the module working with php5.
Unfortunately, you will not be able to make the module work without the source without hacking into PHP yourself.