Solved install older php version

[fred974]

Hi,
Curent version of php56 in pkg or port is PHP 5.6.22.
Could anyone please tell me if its possible to install version 5.6.20 without hacking anything?

Thank you

 

[obsigna]

Don't know, if you consider the following as 'hacking something', anyway, here we go:

mkdir -p ~/my_old_ports
cd ~/my_old_ports
svn checkout -r r414019 http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/php56 php56-20
cd php56-20
pkg delete php56
make install clean

Note, the revision number is the one before PHP 5.6.20 was updated to 5.6.21 -- see: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/php56/?view=log

 

[fred974]

Thank you obsigna ,
This look good to me
What will hapen to all the php extension that I curently have?
Will they need reinstalling?

 

[obsigna]

The command pkg delete php56 should have deinstalled all the extensions right away, and yes you need to repeat the other commands for the PHP extensions each, since I have some doubts, whether the meta port lang/php56-extensions would work outside of the regular ports tree.

For example security/php56-openssl:
cd ~/my_old_ports
svn checkout -r r414019 http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/php56-openssl php56-20-openssl
cd php56-20-openssl
make install clean

 

[kpa]

Thank you obsigna ,
This look good to me
What will hapen to all the php extension that I curently have?
Will they need reinstalling?

It depends on how PHP handles backwards/forwards compatibility between the main interpreter and the add-ons. This is not something FreeBSD ports can have any influence on.