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pete3005
10-26-2002, 04:36 AM
Lately IH have made some very positive changes to PHP, first was upgrading to 4.2.3 and now I just noticed GD lib is now v2.0 where it was 1.8.

I am very pleased that IH are quick to upgrade and I am more than pleased that IH have all the decent PHP extensions installed like ming and curl e.t.c.

The problem is I only notice these changes when I alter my .htaccess file and look at my phpinfo(), I just turned register_globals off which is how I noticed GD had been upgraded.

So my suggestion is, would it be possible to receive an email notifying us of any changes, no matter how small, to the PHP config? It would be nice to know just incase any changes affect a script, but more than likely, it would be nice to know so we can take advantage of any new extensions/upgrades.

Last week I made a script that uses GD, now I can get better quality automated thumbs made with GD2, had I have not looked, I wouldn't have known.

Or maybe, if its easier, IH could create a changelog type page that I can look at every few days or whatever.

I would also like to take this opportunity to once again express my thanks to Steven and Co for such remarkable and outstanding reliability and service.

Pete

Sara
10-26-2002, 06:00 AM
I like the changelog page idea, would keep us all up to date on the subtle and big changes! :)

Aren't they all great, Pete?? I so agree!!

Tal
10-26-2002, 08:54 PM
We send updates via the mailing list and anticipated doing so for this as well. There will be an email going out to clients either tonight or tomorrow regarding the php changes and some other features we are bringing online. The reason why we needed to take immediate action was simply based on customers were having some issues with scripts like vbulletin or some of their own custom ones as a result of a module compiled into php which was not previously compiled in php. So we needed to update php, and with that we updated some libraries as well, as we want to offer our clients up to date software which is proven and tested to work in a beneficial way.

Either way, your suggestion is a very good one, and we appreciate your feedback.