I was looking at updating PHP on the intranet server here and noticed they have went to PHP 5.4.4
However I found that I cant update to the latest version as I cannot find the PECL extensions that I would need to add to the extensions folder to allow it to work, it will not work with the old ones - you just get error messages all over the show.
In fact I could not find the PECL extensions for 5.3 either.
As this was all in aid of creating a test site for our VLE to see how the update would go from moodle 1.9 to moodle 2+. So I decided to go ahead and update the moodle anyway on the test site running PHP 5.2.9-2 and mySQL 5.0.51
Naturally our custom theme stopped the update and had to be deleted in order for the update to proceed, otherwise it seems to have worked. Albeit with a crap theme. Unfortunately, according to the documentation, the theme would require a complete reworking in order to make it compatible - lovely!
Note in updating moodle I created a new folder and put the new version of moodle in there, changed the config.ini file accordingly (had to change from MySQL to MySQLi engine) then moved any additions into the folder. Do not bung it all in your current folder as if you mix the code you are stuffed. This is a rewrite of moodle as different from 1.9 as Dos is from Windoze 7. Make sure you have everything backed up and for goodness sake do not do the update on the live site until you have tried it on a test site. I have copies of the moodledata directory, the moodle directory on the server and the database which I exported using phpMyAdmin. If you have one of these 3 things missing and things go pear shaped you will be in serious trouble.
I will let the powers that be worry about that.
