Re: Moving from PHP Version 5.1.6 to PHP Version 4.3 and GD …

>     If you are using a RedHat based distro such as Fedora, CentOS or RedHat
>     itself, you can usually set the following up:

>     In /etc/yum.repos.d/*.conf :
>     - Remove any mention of "Plus" distributions, ie: CentOS-Plus, by
>     setting "enabled=1" to "enabled=0". This repository will usually include
>     PHP5 & newer versions of Apache than you may want.
>     - Set alternate repositories such as "Dag" and/or "Dries" to disabled,
>     same method as above: "enabled=0". While these don't always suggest the
>     next and latest versions, they may include dependencies you may not want
>     to install at that time.

>     Next, check for updates and packages using Yum. To search using YUM,
>     use: "yum search ". ie: "yum search php". Also, here's a
>     handy list I use for CentOS based systems, which is basically RedHat
>     Enterprise Server 4.x, and these are all installable using
>     - "yum install "... etc

>     The following packages can be installed via "yum install" and should
>     give you full functionality, or at least similar capabilities, to that
>     of a hosting provider:

>     gd gd-devel gd-progs
>     ImageMagick ImageMagick-perl ImageMagick-devel
>     libtiff libtiff-devel
>     libexif libexif-devel
>     libjpeg libjpeg-devel
>     libpng libpng-devel
>     php php-devel php-pear php-mysql php-mbstring php-imap php-domxml php-gd
>     mysql mysql-server mysql-devel perl-DBD-MySQL libdbi-dbd-mysql
>     httpd httpd-suexec mod_auth_mysql mod_perl mod_ssl

>     Hope that helps...

>     ~ Tony E

>     Alex Dean wrote:
>     > keith smith wrote:
>     >> I would like to move from PHP 5 to PHP 4 and include GD support. I'm
>     >> a complete novice at this type of stuff. I would like to avoid having
>     >> to install from a TAR. Mostly for upgrade ability.
>     > In Debian it would be something like 'apt-get install php4 php4-gd'.
>     > apt would remove php5 before installing php4. I'm not sure what Fedora
>     > calls the packages, but I imagine yum provides something pretty
>     > similar. If you want to try running both ( one as an Apache
>     module, one
>     > under FastCGI ) I did a howto on that for AzPHP a few months ago.
>     > http://www.deanspot.org/content/view/77/46/
>     >>
>     >> Also what PHP graphics support is more common? My shared host has GD
>     >> and I'm hearing about ImageMagick.
>     > Ask your host what they provide and use that. Keep in mind that GD has
>     > changed over time. Some releases support GIF and some don't. You can
>     > find out what you've got with a phpinfo() call. Check the 'GD'
>     section.

>     >
>     > I know this you didn't ask, so feel free to disregard this, but I have
>     > to say that in my opinion you're taking a real step backwards by going
>     > back to PHP4. (I say this as someone who writes PHP every day.) PHP5
>     > is a huge improvement, and it's a shame more people aren't taking
>     > advantage of it.

>     >
>     > regards,
>     > alex

>     >

>     >

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