Re: Changes in 8.2's PHP behaviour?

semi-ambivalent skrev:
> All,
>
> I have a simple web page that inserts data into a table in 8.1.5 using
> PHP4. It's pretty amateurish but gets the job done. A few days ago I
> upgraded to 8.2 (this is on a FreeBSD system, and I used the port) but
> when I tried to use the web page this morning I got errors about:
>
> PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_escape_string() in
> /usr/local/www/data-dist/some_dir/some_dir/dataInsert.php on line 9,
> referer: http://localhost/some_dir/some_dir/dataEnter.php
>
> I'm a pretty poor PHP person, and I think its error messages can be
> cryptic, but nothing has changed in this except the version of
> postgresql. Does 8.2 handle input differently than does 8.1.x? Is that
> where to begin looking? I have seen talk about handling of escape
> strings but thought is was 'this way is good and this way is bad' kind
> of thing, not a 'this way will no longer work with postgresql' thing.
> FWIW a quick pg_dump, a fallback to 8.1.5 and a restore and things work
> again.
>
> thanks for any pointers,
>
> r

If a recompile of php is necessary perhaps you might want to consider
php 5.1 in which a kind soul implemented support for bind variables.

http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-query-params.php

Best regards,
Marcus