History of Webstack - PHP85 Installation

Things are definitely starting to pull together! The problem with the simple switching from PHP8.4 to PHP8.5 by SUSE is that PHP8.5 does not include the two firebird drivers, or rather pdo_firebird which should be included with a standard PHP install has gone missing. I was of cause anticipating a lot of aggro replacing my PHP8.4 builds with 8.5 ones, but in reality it was something of a doddle. Of cause it would have been a little easier if I had removed the lock on zypper that blocked php8* packages from being updated (zypper removelock 'php8*') That had been put in place initially to protect the php8.4 install.

Things are definitely starting to pull together! The problem with the simple switching from PHP8.4 to PHP8.5 by SUSE is that PHP8.5 does not include the two firebird drivers, or rather pdo_firebird which should be included with a standard PHP install has gone missing. I was of cause anticipating a lot of aggro replacing my PHP8.4 builds with 8.5 ones, but in reality it was something of a doddle. Of cause it would have been a little easier if I had removed the lock on zypper that blocked php8* packages from being updated (zypper removelock 'php8*') That had been put in place initially to ((Webstack - PHP84 Protection|protect the php8.4 install)).

No need for opcache extension as OPcache is compiled into PHP8.5 - no separate ini needed, appears under 'Z' (Zend OPcache) in phpinfo, not under 'O'!