Re: Changes in 8.2's PHP behaviour?

Erik Jones wrote:
> You probably need to re-compile PHP so that it can correctly link to the
> new postgres binaries.
>
> semi-ambivalent wrote:
> > 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
> >
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> erik jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
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! :)

thanks (both)

s-a