UPDATE: It appears there is a problem with the Entropy build of PHP 5.3.0, which prevents fopen’s from working. Not sure if it’s because it’s running on a PPC, or if there’s just something up with the build. At this point, I’ve moved back to PHP 5.2.9. In the next month or so, I’ll probably move back to PHP 5.3.1, but there will be more about that later.
So, yesterday I spent a good chunk of the day working on my website. I started with converting a couple scripts I run on the site (my gas info on the right, my power history, etc) from PEAR MDB2 to PDO. This really wasn’t that bad, and PDO seems faster, but it could just be perception.
More importantly, I upgraded PHP on the server to 5.3.0 from 5.2.9. For the most part, everything worked great… though Twitter Tools has stopped grabbing new tweets, and a few WordPress plugins are throwing errors dealing with strpos() rss.php.
The twitter tools error thrown is:
[Mon Jan 11 21:24:50 2010] [error] [client 10.0.2.1] PHP Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: System error in /path/to/website/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1142
[Mon Jan 11 21:24:50 2010] [error] [client 10.0.2.1] PHP Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to twitter.com:80 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: System error) in /path/to/website/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1142
And yes, allow_url_fopen is enabled. Can’t figure it out at all.
The error other plugins are throwing is:
strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /path/to/website/wp-includes/rss.php on line 577
I hope to get these fixed… but at this point, I can’t figure out what’s going on. =(
Obviously the possibilities are:
- Bug in php
- Bug in scripts
- Some misconfiguration in php.ini
I don’t think it’s the last option, but I’m not 100% positive.
Anyway… that’s all for now.
Happy new year!
