# php53 problems

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [March 28, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446 "2012-03-28T08:50:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![eerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@eerms](https://forums.suse.com/u/eerms)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446/1 "2012-03-28T08:50:13Z")

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Hello

Looked around web for possibilities to get PHP 5.3 running on SLES and found some posts mentining packages php53.  
Installed php53, apache2-mod\_php53, php53-mysql etc. from YAST on my webserver (default apache2 and mysql) running on SLES 11 SP2 for VMware.  
At first everything worked fine and I moved two servers into production, but it seems that now we have found some problems.

Such code:

[CODE]\<?php  
print\_r($\_POST);  
?\>

 [/CODE]

Should return

`Array ( [field] => Array ( [1] => [2] => [3] => [4] => [5] => ) [submit] 
=> Submit Query )`

Instead what we get is

`
Array ( [field] => Array ( [1] => ) [submit] => Submit Query )`

Tested the code with default php packages (5.2.14) and everything works fine.  
I don’t have much experience and maybe i don’t know some security setting for php53?

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**Author:** ![eerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@eerms](https://forums.suse.com/u/eerms)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446/2 "2012-03-28T09:34:31Z")

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Also I tested php 5.3.10 from OpenSuse repo ([http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php/SLE\_11/](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php/SLE_11/)) and the code works fine.

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**Author:** ![meikestone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@meikestone](https://forums.suse.com/u/meikestone)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446/3 "2012-03-28T10:51:54Z")

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Hello,

this looks like a similar problem, posted here:  
[http://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?782-Problem-with-apache-php-file-upload](http://forums.suse.com/showthread.php?782-Problem-with-apache-php-file-upload)  
But it is not solved yet …

Kindly regards

Meike

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**Author:** ![bluenoser1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bluenoser1963](https://forums.suse.com/u/bluenoser1963)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446/4 "2013-02-24T02:54:58Z")

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[QUOTE=eerms;3696]Hello

Looked around web for possibilities to get PHP 5.3 running on SLES and found some posts mentining packages php53.  
Installed php53, apache2-mod\_php53, php53-mysql etc. from YAST on my webserver (default apache2 and mysql) running on SLES 11 SP2 for VMware.  
At first everything worked fine and I moved two servers into production, but it seems that now we have found some problems.

Such code:

[CODE]\<?php  
print\_r($\_POST);  
?\>

 [/CODE]

Should return

`Array ( [field] => Array ( [1] => [2] => [3] => [4] => [5] => ) [submit] 
=> Submit Query )`

Instead what we get is

`
Array ( [field] => Array ( [1] => ) [submit] => Submit Query )`

Tested the code with default php packages (5.2.14) and everything works fine.  
I don’t have much experience and maybe i don’t know some security setting for php53?[/QUOTE]

I am having problems too. I am trying to install XOOPS cms. If I use 5.2.14, everything works. 5.3.8 is broken. I installed 5.3.21 from the opensuse repository for SLES 11 and still have the same problems as 5.3.8. What gives?

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**Author:** ![robert1b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@robert1b](https://forums.suse.com/u/robert1b)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446/5 "2013-11-06T15:42:46Z")

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It’s a long time ago this post submited. Do someone have solution for that problem ? Problem still exist.  
I spend a lot of time to find problem, but solution is not known.

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/php53-problems/22446/6 "2013-11-06T16:42:49Z")

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Hi robert1b,

[QUOTE=robert1b;17310]It’s a long time ago this post submited. Do someone have solution for that problem ? Problem still exist.  
I spend a lot of time to find problem, but solution is not known.[/QUOTE]

since it’s a long time… which SLES, which php RPMs, which problem are you facing exactly (is suppose “I am trying to install XOOPS cms”, but cannot tell for sure).

Regards,  
Jens