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time to upgrade - php 5.1.6 had serious bugs IIRC

Cliff Hirsch wrote:
> 
> On 7/20/07 10:06 AM, "Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine)" <ben at projectskyline.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>>  
>> What are these types of "crashes"..what exactly is happening?
>>  
>> What OS are you using .. version? Which PHP/Apache versions are you
>> using?
>>  
>> Infinite loops may cause you to have to restart apache.
>> I'm curious what you mean by "crash"...
>>  
>> Can you post some sampe code that's crashing apache.
>>  
>> - Ben
>>  
> Windows XP, XAMPP 1.5.5 (PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0.24a)
> 
> I traced the crash to my error handler routine.
> 
> The first error ‹ a missing method -- is captured as indicated below:
> 
> Error number: 8 
> Error type: e_notice
> TEXT: Undefined variable: method
> LOCATION: C:\Program
> Files\xampp\htdocs\kerbeaz\business_objects\admintasks.php, line 299, at
> July 20, 2007, 10:17 am
> Showing backtrace:
> FilterRecordSet.ValidateForm() # line  266, file: C:\Program
> Files\xampp\htdocs\kerbeaz\business_objects\admintasks.php
> FilterRecordSet.Init(false) # line  165, file: C:\Program
> Files\xampp\htdocs\kerbeaz\business_objects\admintasks.php
> AdminTasks.DisplayTasks() # line  227, file: C:\Program
> Files\xampp\htdocs\kerbeaz\business_objects\admintasks.php
> AdminTasks.DefaultPage() # line   65, file: C:\Program
> Files\xampp\htdocs\kerbeaz\business_objects\admintasks.php
> AdminTasks.init() # line   43, file: C:\Program
> Files\xampp\htdocs\kerbeaz\admin.php
> 
> The second error ‹ an undefined variable ‹ is picked up as indicated
> below:
> 
> errorno 8, undefined variable min, file admintasks, line 299
> 
> But then when my error handler tries to build the error backtrace like
> that
> shown above, this line crashes Apache:
> $traceArr = debug_backtrace();
>  
> That¹s where I¹m stuck ‹ I can¹t dig any deeper, since debug_backtrace()
> is
> a native php function.
> 
> Cliff
> 
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