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Glen Mailer
October 05, 2013
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Upgrading from PHP 5.3 to 5.5
A small talk on the experiences gained from migrating from PHP 5.3 to 5.5.
Glen Mailer
October 05, 2013
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Glen Mailer
The Codebase
First commit April 2010 60k commits since
9300 PHP files 690k lines of code According to git
and cloc
10 releases a week 35 active committers 10 concurrent streams
1 deployable
The Platform
8 Test Environments 1 Staging Environment 2 Live Environments
74 Live PHP boxes
1300 req/s peak 500k uniques/week
Why?
Using basically the same PHP version as the first commit
with security patches
PHP 5.3 is dead
Bug fixes Performance
New Features! short array syntax traits $this in closures yield
finally
but no smoking gun
Bug #64827 GC causes segfaults
The Plan
Upgrade a dev box Support 5.3 and 5.5 Pass all
tests Upgrade 1 Test env Upgrade CI Upgrade Test & Staging Incrementally Upgrade Live
Vagrant Chef Unit Tests Acceptance Tests
Hack hack hack...
3 days later
What changed?
APC becomes OPcache and APCu
Check for new function, fall back to old one if
(function_exists('opcache_reset')) { opcache_reset(); } else { apc_clear_cache(); }
“The PHP api will retain compatibility with APC, as will
common configuration options, providing a drop in replacement.” APCu
Not a drop in replacement
APCu 4.0.1 APCu 4.0.2
No more mysql_
It will not be missed
preg_replace /e becomes preg_replace_callback
(string) array() Now raises a warning Still returns “Array”
Type-checked function function inc($int) { if (!is_int($int)) { throw new
InvalidArgumentException( 'Expected int, got: ' . $int ); } return $int + 1; }
Unit test for type-checked function /** * @dataprovider provideIncInvalid */
function testIncRejectsInvalid($a) { try { inc($a); $this->fail('Expected exception'); } catch (InvalidArgumentException $ex) {} } function provideIncInvalid() { return array( null, true, "string", array() ); }
Simplest fix throw new InvalidArgumentException( 'Expected int, got: ' .
json_encode($int) );
$a = "string”; $a['index']; Now raises a warning
// protected $a; ++$this->a Now raises a warning
Progress
Upgrade a dev box Support 5.3 and 5.5 Pass all
tests Upgrade 1 Test env Upgrade CI Upgrade Test & Staging Incrementally Upgrade Live
Upgrade a dev box Support 5.3 and 5.5 Pass all
tests Upgrade 1 Test env Upgrade CI Upgrade Test & Staging Incrementally Upgrade Live
What now?
Finish Migrating Live
See if the hard to reproduce failures have stopped
Start using new features!
Keep up to date
You should upgrade too!
Fin.
Questions?
@glenathan https://joind.in/9473