I'm trying to run a PHP application full of depracted ereg calls. I got the wampserver extension to switch from PHP 5.3.10 to 5.2.11, where that function is still valid, but when I try to start my services Apache won't start. I'm using Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.2.11, and MySQL 5.5.20 on Windows 7 x64. The index.php page I'm trying to load comes up when I use PHP 5.3.10, albeit with a lot of errors about my ereg functions.
I get that I can go through all my PHP files and update the code to modern usage, but shouldn't I be able to use wampserver's PHP version extensions, since they're offered?
I've tried copying .dll's from /wamp/bin/php/php5.2.11/ directly into /wamp/bin/ but it looks like the installer for the 5.2.11 extension had taken care of that already. It also seems to have updated php.ini during install.
The Apache error log shows zero activity when I try to start wamp services. Not even notices.
I'm pretty new to Apache and PHP so I'm not sure what relevant info I could paste from php.ini or httpd.conf but if there's anything in either of those that you think would be helpful to work toward a solution, let me know and I'll paste it.