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https://somethingunpredictable.com/archives/25/11/2005/on-backwards-compatability-php-mysql-and-open-source-software/

Here’s my thoughts on the whole subject, and perhaps after reading it, you’ll lighten up a bit. And perhaps if/when you become more educated in PHP, you’ll realize that its not as easy as it all seems just looking at error messages. ??

First off
Q. “How the hell did this get past Q/A anyways?”
A. You are the Q/A, this is called “beta” for a reason.

Second, on the PHP4 vs PHP5 issue, you have been ill informed. Code did not break because the WP devs took shortcuts, it broke because of a serious change in the Zend Engine that, if you watch the PHP internals list or any of the more serious PHP sites, you would know intentionally broke backwards compatability in order to add new features.

“And there’s no reason for it, aside from either bad or lazy coding.”
Sure there is. Not every person is capable of keeping up with hundreds of versions of PHP and/or hundreds of versions of mySQL. Hvae you seen the size of the mysql changelog from minor version to minor version? Its usually 2-3 pages, imagine the size of the 4 to 5 changelog.

“I’m surprised no one realizes how serious the problem could end up being.”
https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/1953 is the ticket, place your input, instead of fussing here, as it will get you a lot further.

Your disreguard for the open source development model really shows. WP developers place changes like this in the code and release betas to find out how it functions for everybody. They are not in some huge corperate environment with tons of testbeds and dedicated testing staff sitting around. These betas are released so that people like you can report back to the developers, and problems can be pinpointed and fixed.

If you’d like to see the bug fixed, voice your input on the ticket for the bug. Calling developers lazy isn’t going to get you anywhere.

Try Owen’s Admin Revert plugin.
https://asymptomatic.net/2005/10/24/2060/admin-revert-plugin/

Jark, no it shouldn’t, that table has been removed in 1.6 in favor of capabilities.

Go to your dashboard page and add ?install at the end, the autodetection for activation is still flakey, since 1.5 has no hooks for this. When WP 1.6 is out, a new version of this plugin will be released with proper documentation and much better hooking.

A little update, we’ve now squashed over 50 bugs, thanks everybody that’s come out so far, and let’s keep up the good work.

You didn’t upload all your files.

Here’s a little something I just thought about for people who don’t have decent text editors with find in projects or don’t know how to grep.

https://somethingunpredictable.com/xrefs/wptrunk/nav.html?index.html

A cross-reference of the WordPress trunk code, updated daily.

Its probably a case of your server not being able to access the outside internet at a decent pace for some odd reason, or maybe a failure to resolve DNS, since all of the dashboard content is syndicated off of other pages. Everything appears to be fine here, so I don’t think that the feeds are broken.

Now why would you say its not compatible when I _JUST_ said that I’ve been using it for _months_? If you look at the code and the mySQL changelogs, you would know as well as I do that there are no changes that would make the code break with the upgrade.

I’ve been using PHP5 and mySQL 5 for months with no problem. As for that error, it looks like you may have no posts at all, which has potential to trigger that error.

Is it possible that your mySQL user lost the privledges required to INSERT data, or SELECT data, or anything else? What are the permissions for your mySQL user?

For the time being, you may just try to downgrade to mySQL 4.1, and see if that helps.

You would send a header(“Content-Type: application/zip”); and use zlib to zip up the files like you said.

Matt mentioned at the meetup that the problem could be that the codex is hosted on a similar block as geocities and is hosted by yahoo, so that could be why its blocked.

Ask the Chinese government, they’re good at screwing that stuff up.

https://mu.www.ads-software.com is where you should be asking and checking.