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Heads Up: PHP deprecates mysql extension in 5.5.
In a recent developer vote, the php project decided to deprecate the mysql extension in PHP 5.5 and finally remove it from the main PHP project. It may or may not be available for a longer period as a PECL extension. The mysql extension has long been superseded by two more powerful extensions, PDO/Mysql and
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Horde 3 End of Life after 8 years – It was a great time.
——– Original-Nachricht ——– Betreff: [announce] End Of Life for Horde 3 Datum: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:21:17 +0100 Von: Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org> Antwort an: core@lists.horde.org An: announce@lists.horde.org, vendor@lists.horde.org, horde@lists.horde.org The Horde Team is announcing the End Of Life (EOL) for the Horde 3 release series. With the final release of Horde 5 the state of
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No Bullshit #1: Apache vhost config AllowOverride All does not activate mod_rewrite
This is beginner’s talk, but I have seen it too many times anyway. A lot of tutorials on the web claim that you have to state “AllowOverride All” in an apache config and it magically activates mod_rewrite somehow. This is all bullshit. Your mileage may vary, you may be lucky on debianish systems. It’s not
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jappix needs php-mbstring and will fail on SLES11
jappix is a fine piece of xmpp (jabber) based community building software. Sadly, its installer needs php-mbstring (for SLES 11 SP2, this is php5-mbstring or php53-mbstring depending on your php choice). Sadly, it hides any error messages before requiring this crucial library. You will never know until you investigate closely. Or as some person on
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Horde 5 enters release cycle – First Alpha of Sesha Inventory App available
All’s well that ends well. During the last few days, the first alpha releases of the Horde Framework and some of its core apps hit the announcement list. Horde 5 sports a completely revamped user interface which allows a much tighter integration of the portal dashboard, ajax mode applications like the IMP Webmailer or traditional
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Horde 5 Preview: Sesha Inventory App 1.0 and updated Rdo library
Dear folks, I am very pleased to announce: The Sesha Inventory application is ready for Horde 5 and it is in good shape. Sesha is a simple inventory keeping application which originally developed by Bo Daley and Andrew Coleman on Horde 3. The product was never officially released but it went into production at several
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Heads up: OBS SLES 11 PHP stuff migrates to SP2! – server:php:applications/SLE11 repository
OBS server:php:applications/SLE11 repository now builds against SLES 11 SP2 – some packages fail to build because of multiple providers.
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PHP goes git
Today the main PHP development branch has moved to the git version control system. In the past, PHP has been developed on cvs and svn. The move to git is very common Bodybuilding toepassingen these days. Git is, for example, the version control system used by the linux kernel developers and the Horde Application Framework.
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php5.3 packages in SLES 11 SP2
SLES 11 SP2 ships php5.3 binaries but the default package php5 still installs php5.2 which already has reached upstream end of life and should be considered unsupported by any means. Recent versions of phpunit and other developer tools won’t provide all features on php5.2 any more. You must use apache2-mod_php53, php53, php53-mysql and so on
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Installing Horde 4 pear packages to a custom pear location (SUSE)
When installing horde to a custom pear location, you need to run the pear of your custom location, not the system pear with the custom location’s config. So the steps would be: 1 mkdir /srv/horde 2 pear config-create /srv/horde/ /srv/horde/pear.conf 3 pear -c /srv/horde/pear.conf install PEAR as the install docs say but then: 4 /srv/horde/pear/pear