Hello everyone,
I have recently installed XAMPP 1.7.3 with PHP 5.3
When I try to browse my mediawiki I get the error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_NAMESPACE, expecting T_STRING in ...\xampp\htdocs\united_dumpers_nfo\wiki\includes\Namespace.php on line 49
After searching a bit it seems this error is caused because 1. my mediawiki is too old and 2. y php is too new
To make the mediwiki run and upgrade it, I need to downgrade PHP to 5.2
So here is what I have done: in the XAMPP folder I renamed 'php' folder to 'php_5.3'
I downloaded the package php-5.2.14-Win32.zip @ php.net and extracted the content in XAMPP folder and renamed it 'php'.
But now Apache is broken.
Please can you explain me how to downgrade php to 5.2, keep in mind I am a newbie in all of this so I will need every step explained.
Thanks very much.