Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.We have a client who's on RedHat Enterprise Linux, which ships with PHP 5.1.6, and isn't eager to upgrade (which would sacrifice their support terms with RedHat).
I noticed that in the Drupal 5 version of this module, there are these lines:
define('IMAGEAPI_MINIMUM_PHP', '5.1');
define('IMAGEAPI_RECOMMENDED_PHP', '5.2');
During the 6.x port, this got translated to php = 5.2 in the .info file.
CVS annotate unfortunately isn't that helpful, as it points me to the following commit message:
"#256687 by drewish, Clean up requirement/install errors.
by dopry, relax php version requirements
by dopry, remove gd version reporting since core does it already."
Unfortunately, the patch attached to #256687: Fix a bunch of warnings with the imageapi_gd.install file doesn't contain any of this.
After hacking the .info file to change it to 5.1, things seem to be working okay.
So how about it? Can we reduce this requirement to 5.1?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #11 | imageapi.info.patch | 453 bytes | seanr |
Comments
Comment #1
aaron CreditAttribution: aaron commentedWe have the identical issue. However, we have problems getting it to work even with the aforementioned .info file hack. I'd assumed there were some function(s) in the new version of PHP, and was about to track that down when I saw this issue.
Comment #2
nrambeck CreditAttribution: nrambeck commentedI just ran across this issue as well. Company servers are Redhat Enterprise Linux running PHP 5.1.2. After hacking the .info file to allow for PHP 5.1.x, ImageCache is not working. Any insight into the code/functions requiring 5.2.x would be helpful. Thanks.
Comment #3
nrambeck CreditAttribution: nrambeck commentedActually this now seems to be working fine in PHP 5.1.2 (although I am only using image scaling actions with ImageCache). The problem above stemmed from not having the files directory explicitly set in the File System settings.
I would concur with webchick on reducing the requirement to 5.1 unless there are specific issues developers are aware of.
Comment #4
drewish CreditAttribution: drewish commenteddopry reported problems in earlier versions but i'm not sure what the they were. since then he and i have only been developing against php 5.2. people are welcome to try it with previous versions but it's unsupported and untested.
Comment #6
pixeliteI'm using ImageAPI in conjunction with GD2 on a few projects and haven't come across any issues with using PHP 5.1. It is kind of a hassle to have to hack the module just to remove the dependency on 5.2.
Comment #7
temmermon CreditAttribution: temmermon commentedagreed. This is the same issue as with Filefield and it was changed accordingly. See that discussion: http://drupal.org/node/411560
Comment #8
drewish CreditAttribution: drewish commentedIf someone with PHP 5.0 or 5.1 wants to roll a patch and can verify that the module works on that version I'll commit it.
Comment #9
worldcoast CreditAttribution: worldcoast commentedworking on 5.1.6, really though it's an easy thing to just go into the file and change it to read 5.1
I have no idea how to make a patch file for you =)
Comment #10
suit4 CreditAttribution: suit4 commentedseems to work (with a little code fix) on php 5.0.4 as well
Comment #11
seanrHere's the patch; works fine on my server with PHP 5.1.6
Comment #12
drewish CreditAttribution: drewish commentedlooks good to me. committed to DRUPAL-6--1.