Mohamed Magdy wrote: I've fixed some bugs and tested it on MySQL 5.1 in strict mode, it seems to work. Update and tell us if you have any problems. -- Tim Starling

Barring any PHP bugs, I would expect this to work out-of-the-box, at least in 1.10.x : ----------------------------------------- root@bling:/var/www/hosts/mediawiki/wiki# ls -al includes/IP* -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 15324 2007-04-11 16:22 includes/IP.php root@bling:/var/www/hosts/mediawiki/wiki# grep -in "IP.php" includes/AutoLoader.php 100: 'IP' => 'includes/IP.php', 170: 'IPBlockForm' => 'includes/SpecialBlockip.php', root@bling:/var/www/hosts/mediawiki/wiki# ----------------------------------------- (i.e. the "IP" in IP.php is in uppercase, both for the file's name in the filesystem, and for the path used in the autoloader). If it doesn't work when 1.10 is released, make sure you have the latest stable version of PHP installed. If it still doesn't work, then please file a bug report in bugzilla, with the version of PHP used, type and version number of OS, and maybe type and version number of web server. -- All the best, Nick.

On 23/04/07, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k(a)gmail.com> wrote: MediaWiki contains a large and complicated application framework, and as such it is not safe to "just go on" if part of it is unable to be loaded. There isn't a "safe mode" or a "reduced functionality mode"; if a file is missing, then it's missing, and the user needs to correct it. Rob Church

But don't you want to know if something doesn't work? Your options are either it seems to work, but then just fails when the IP-related functions are called; or it can fail upfront, and you know that there's a problem. The second is commonly known as failfast, and is thought by some to be a useful property - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast (contrast with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault-tolerant_system ) Personally, I generally prefer fail-fast (I'm only talking here about non-life-critical software that I'm responsible for maintaining). If something I'm responsible for is going to fail, then I'd much rather find out as early as possible, than at 3 AM when an irate customer/user who has a deadline in 5 hours runs into a showstopper bug, and demands that it be fixed right now :-) Equally, if a plane a going to fail, I'd much rather it be unable to take off, than fall out of the sky in mid-flight ... but on the other hand, once a plane is airborne, then I want N+2 redundancy on all critical systems; and once a server has been deployed in the data centre, I want RAID to protect against single hard disk failures. So I suppose it really depends on : * how critical the system is (if not very important, then the effort expended in making it fault-tolerant may be more usefully directed elsewhere) * whether the thing has already been deployed (in which case redundancy is good), or whether it's being tested / developed / set up / configured (in which case failfast is good). -- All the best, Nick.

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