Does VM 2 still support PHP 5.1?

[skeg64]

I have searched but can't find system requirements anywhere.

I am using PHP 5.1.6, which is supported by Joomla 1.5

If so, I have found references in VM to PHP functions that aren't supported in 5.1.

[RolandD]

I don't think VM2 should support PHP 5.1.6 it is old and no longer maintained and so is PHP 5.2. Everything should move to PHP 5.3, this is the current maintained version.

[skeg64]

I agree, but that was not the question.

Should I report PHP 5.1 incompatibilities as bugs or not?

[Milbo]

No, dont report this as a bug.
Imho we just support one of the latest 5.2.x, but not 5.1

[skeg64]

OK, but so far I have only had to make the following change: In adminstrator/components/com_virtuemart/models/config.php around line 90 there is a call to PHP's pathinfo() function. This function doesn't return the 'filename' in PHP 5.1. So I changed:

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$path_info = pathinfo($file);


to:

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$path_info = pathinfo($file);
if (!array_key_exists('filename', $path_info)) {
$path_info['filename'] = str_replace('.'.$path_info['extension'], '', $path_info['basename']);
}


see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.pathinfo.php

[Milbo]

ah good to know, yeah to add such a small fix for php5.1  should be considered. yes