<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Other incompatibilities</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3" HREF="migration.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Function TRUE/FALSE return values" HREF="migration.truefalse.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Debugging PHP" HREF="debugger.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="migration.truefalse.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix C. Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="debugger.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="migration.other" ></A >Other incompatibilities</H1 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > The PHP 3.0 Apache module no longer supports Apache versions prior to 1.2. Apache 1.2 or later is required. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <A HREF="function.echo.html" ><B CLASS="function" >echo()</B ></A > no longer supports a format string. Use the <A HREF="function.printf.html" ><B CLASS="function" >printf()</B ></A > function instead. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > In PHP/FI 2.0, an implementation side-effect caused <TT CLASS="literal" >$foo[0]</TT > to have the same effect as <TT CLASS="literal" >$foo</TT >. This is not true for PHP 3.0. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Reading arrays with <TT CLASS="literal" >$array[]</TT > is no longer supported </P ><P > That is, you cannot traverse an array by having a loop that does <TT CLASS="literal" >$data = $array[]</TT >. Use <A HREF="function.current.html" ><B CLASS="function" >current()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.next.html" ><B CLASS="function" >next()</B ></A > instead. </P ><P > Also, <TT CLASS="literal" >$array1[] = $array2</TT > does not append the values of <TT CLASS="literal" >$array2</TT > to <TT CLASS="literal" >$array1</TT >, but appends <TT CLASS="literal" >$array2</TT > as the last entry of <TT CLASS="literal" >$array1</TT >. See also multidimensional array support. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <TT CLASS="literal" >"+"</TT > is no longer overloaded as a concatenation operator for strings, instead it converts it's arguments to numbers and performs numeric addition. Use <TT CLASS="literal" >"."</TT > instead. </P ></LI ></UL ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN104331" ></A ><P ><B >Example C-11. Migration from 2.0: concatenation for strings</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >echo "1" + "1";</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > In PHP 2.0 this would echo 11, in PHP 3.0 it would echo 2. Instead use: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >echo "1"."1";</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$a = 1; $b = 1; echo $a + $b;</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > This would echo 2 in both PHP 2.0 and 3.0. <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$a = 1; $b = 1; echo $a.$b;</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > This will echo 11 in PHP 3.0. </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="migration.truefalse.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="debugger.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Function <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT >/<TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > return values</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="migration.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Debugging PHP</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >