Upgrade to 6.8 issues

[Jeff Ross]

Hi all,

Just upgraded to 6.8 from 6.3 (yes, I know...) and now find a few of the
websites I'm hosting are no longer connecting to postgres because pear
DB is apparently no longer in ports.  Fortunately so far they all appear
to be *my* websites so no harm, no foul.

The sites that I'm hosting through something like drupal7 or wordpress
are all fine--it's only the sites that I created a gazillion years ago
using pear DB that are really failing.

Are there alternatives that I'm missing?

Please, I really don't feel the need to move off apache2 just yet.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Stuart Henderson]

Post by Jeff Ross
Hi all,
Just upgraded to 6.8 from 6.3 (yes, I know...) and now find a few of the
websites I'm hosting are no longer connecting to postgres because pear
DB is apparently no longer in ports.  Fortunately so far they all appear
to be *my* websites so no harm, no foul.
The sites that I'm hosting through something like drupal7 or wordpress
are all fine--it's only the sites that I created a gazillion years ago
using pear DB that are really failing.
Are there alternatives that I'm missing?
Please, I really don't feel the need to move off apache2 just yet.
Thanks,
Jeff

I don't recall pear DB being in ports, could you have installed it separately
and just need to update it to work with current php?

Generally pear things doesn't get added to ports unless needed for some
particular application that is wanted in ports, but that is not so common these
days as php applications normally bundle their own 'vendored' dependencies.
To install them yourself you can use "pear install" (systemwide) or just for
a particular project via a dependency manager e.g. "composer".

(note pear DB is still available but no longer getting normal updates, see
https://pear.php.net/package/DB/, see https://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 for
similar current equivalent).

[Jeff Ross]

Post by Stuart Henderson

Post by Jeff Ross
Hi all,
Just upgraded to 6.8 from 6.3 (yes, I know...) and now find a few of the
websites I'm hosting are no longer connecting to postgres because pear
DB is apparently no longer in ports.  Fortunately so far they all appear
to be *my* websites so no harm, no foul.
The sites that I'm hosting through something like drupal7 or wordpress
are all fine--it's only the sites that I created a gazillion years ago
using pear DB that are really failing.
Are there alternatives that I'm missing?
Please, I really don't feel the need to move off apache2 just yet.
Thanks,
Jeff

I don't recall pear DB being in ports, could you have installed it separately
and just need to update it to work with current php?
Generally pear things doesn't get added to ports unless needed for some
particular application that is wanted in ports, but that is not so common these
days as php applications normally bundle their own 'vendored' dependencies.
To install them yourself you can use "pear install" (systemwide) or just for
a particular project via a dependency manager e.g. "composer".
(note pear DB is still available but no longer getting normal updates, see
https://pear.php.net/package/DB/, see https://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 for
similar current equivalent).

Thanks Stuart!  That was indeed the issue--I was just surprised that my
old version of DB.php was deleted.  There were a few more tweaks and
pinches to make that big jump but nothing too hard to figure out.

Jeff