Problem updating PHP 4.3.0 DEV to PHP 4.3.3

[Tobias]

Hi!

I had Apache 2.0.47 and PHP 4.3.0 DEV running successfully on a W2k
Server. For some reason, I couldn't get PHP to read XML-Attributes
with the DOM XML -functions. So I thought, it would be time to update
PHP to a newer version.
So I simply replaces the old php-files with the new ones and of course
kept the php.ini. But now, PHP doesn't work anymore. As soon as I
request a page with php code, I get a "document contains no data"
error after a while. (Apache's error log looks like the excerpt at the
end of this message)

If I install PHP5, I can't even start Apache.

Does anyone have an idea, what may go wrong here?

Thanks in advance,

Tobias

[...]
[Wed Sep 24 20:46:56 2003] [debug] child.c(695): Child 3196: Worker
thread 248 starting.
[Wed Sep 24 20:46:56 2003] [debug] child.c(695): Child 3196: Worker
thread 249 starting.
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:24 2003] [notice] Parent: child process exited with
status 3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3032
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(505 ): Parent: Sent the
scoreboard to the child
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [notice] Child 3032: Child process is
running
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 220 and
sending it to child process 3032
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(426 ): Child 3032:
Retrieved our scoreboard from the parent.
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(623 ): Parent: Sent 1
listeners to child 3032
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(582 ): Child 3032:
retrieved 1 listeners from parent
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [notice] Child 3032: Acquired the start
mutex.
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [notice] Child 3032: Starting 250 worker
threads.
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [debug] child.c(695): Child 3032: Worker
thread 0 starting.
[Wed Sep 24 20:47:25 2003] [debug] child.c(695): Child 3032: Worker
thread 1 starting.
[...]

[Tobias Grimm]

DOMXML and Umlauts (Re: Problem updating PHP 4.3.0 DEV to PHP 4.3.3)

Hi again,

I've found the problem. There was a dll from an old backup still
somwhere in the search path.

But now I have a new problem. When I use the domxml-functions to
parse a xml document with ISO-8859-1 encoding, and simply print out
the parsed texts with echo, then all the umlauts get messed
(ö -> ö and so on). The html is set to charset=iso-8859-1, the xml
encoding is ISO-8859-1. So why do my umlauts become 2-byte codes in
output, that can't even convert with htmlentities()?

bye,

Tobias

[Tony Marston]

Re: DOMXML and Umlauts (Re: Problem updating PHP 4.3.0 DEV to PHP 4.3.3)

I had a similar problem a few months back, and when I queried it with PHP
support they told me that while the default character set for PHP is
ISO-8859-1 the character set used by the DOM XML functions is UTF-8. In
order to correctly process accented characters this is what you do:-

1) Use the mb_convert-encoding() function along with the
$doc->create_text_no de() function to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, as
in:
$value =
$xml_doc->create_text_no de(mb_convert_e ncoding($fieldv alue,'UTF-8','ISO-8859
-1'));

2) On the $xml_doc->dump_mem() command change the encoding back to
ISO-8859-1 as in:
$xml_string = $xml_doc->dump_mem(true, 'ISO-8859-1');

I hope this helps.

Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net/

"Tobias Grimm" <tobias.grimm@g mx.de> wrote in message
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> Hi again,
>
> I've found the problem. There was a dll from an old backup still
> somwhere in the search path.
>
> But now I have a new problem. When I use the domxml-functions to
> parse a xml document with ISO-8859-1 encoding, and simply print out
> the parsed texts with echo, then all the umlauts get messed
> (ö -> ö and so on). The html is set to charset=iso-8859-1, the xml
> encoding is ISO-8859-1. So why do my umlauts become 2-byte codes in
> output, that can't even convert with htmlentities()?
>
> bye,
>
> Tobias
>[/color]