can you run dreamweaver 11.5 with older versions of php?

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
June 24, 2011
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I believe I understand from this group that dreamweaver 11.5 needs to run with php 5.3. I have version 5.1.6. Is there a way to edit a config file and run with an older version of php? And is so, could you please name the config file?

Thanks!!

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Ben M

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tx.us-patty wrote:
I believe I understand from this group that dreamweaver 11.5 needs to run with php 5.3. I have version 5.1.6. Is there a way to edit a config file and run with an older version of php? And is so, could you please name the config file?
Thanks!!

Dreamweaver is not dependant on the PHP version of the server. PHP 5.3 support was added because people asked for it. However, because support for a newer version of the language is in there, you should reference the PHP manual from time to time to ensure that the command exists in the older version and that it works in the same way.

I know it's not always feasible but you should consider trying to update your scripts to work with PHP 5.3 because PHP 5.2 (which is newer than yours) reached its end of life back in December. For all intensive purposes PHP 5.3 was released in June of 2009 which is 5 years ago. Just something to consider.

So in short yes you are safe and you can run your version of PHP.

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So i have code that was stripped down to 3 print statements. Inside the print statements there is some html code. With the dreamweaver 8, i see the output from the html code only as expected. When I run with dreamweaver 11.5, I see the html code and all the "; print \n that was also in the statements like it is not interpreting the php correctly. I backed out to dreamweaver 8 and it works again. I'm at a loss as to why it stopped working with the upgrade. Here's the code that's run on submit from the html page with the php in bold.

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

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<title>Texas Ethics Commission - Results of Query:</title>

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />

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    color: #660000;
    font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-size: small;
}
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    font-size: 12px;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.style16 {
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #990000;
    font-weight: bold;
}

-->
</style>
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Ben M

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Forum|Forum|14 years ago
June 24, 2011

The PHP looks fine but there are a ton of HTML errors in that document with end tags missing, illegal characters being used. It's possible that witht the code errors that the newer DW is actually rigth in not interpreting the code correctly. See if fixing up the HTML errors in that document helps out:

http://validator.w3.org/

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