Moving from PHP Version 5.1.6 to PHP Version 4.3 and GD image support

[Tony E - Jaraeth]

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 <packagename>". 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 <pkg1> <pkg2> <pkg3>"... 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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