Installer does not warn when webserver has PHP 5.1.x only.
I run into this trap after a successfully installation of 1.17 (trunk) on a webserver with PHP 5.1.x only.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function array_fill_keys() in /var/www/html/kunden/ztd/w/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php on line 516
array_fill_keys() was introduced in PHP 5.2.0
Version: 1.17.x
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T28676 Milestone: MediaWiki 1.17 release tarball (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | None | T29781 Installer does not warn when webserver has PHP 5.1.x only |
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation says we support 5.1 or later (5.2 preferred). Looks like it needs to be 5.2 or later, or fix that method call
It seems easily to add an wrapper for this function, see the note in http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-fill-keys.php if we want to support PHP 5.1.x.
I think we should support 5.1.x for the last time in 1.17, providing a back-compat version (or fixing the array_fill_keys functions to do something else).
For 1.18/trunk, I think we should bump the requirement to 5.2.x (5.3.x preferred, of course).