hello and greetings to everybody,
first i have a complain ;-) my timezone (GMT+5:45) is not in the drop-down list and so i am using the closest timezone to it. does it matters?

next i have a question?? can i use two version of the same program in one machine and use both of them simultaneously? to elaborate, i have php-4.3.9-3.9 already installed in a centos-4.3 machine through rpms. the qmailadmin and squirrelmail use php and so far they both are using this php-4.3.9-3.9. but now, i have to install a different version of php (4.4.2) in the same machine with oci support in it for hosting some documents that only works in 4.4.2 (or so they say). how do i go about doing this?

thankyou and sorry for starting with a complain ;-)

The timestamp really doesn't matter, unless you have a time limited question - in which case you should be using paid for support

Welcome to LQ - I have moved this to Linux-General as it is a technical question rather than an intro.

As far as I know you can't. I tried this but kept getting conflicts between the two. But that may just be me. I would try googling for it. I am sure someone else has tried before.

Don't you think the pgm's running on the older version of php will run on the newer?
If you have a place to test it first that would be your best solution.

rpm -u php*.rpm =updates the currently installed version with the newer version.

"The timestamp really doesn't matter, unless you have a time limited question - in which case you should be using paid for support "

what timestamp? i was talking abt the timezone you adjust for yourself when you register. In my case, i live in the GMT+5.45 timezone but due to unavailability i had to use the +5:30 timezone, which would make me seem an indian, why BTW i am not.

"As far as I know you can't. I tried this but kept getting conflicts between the two. But that may just be me. I would try googling for it. I am sure someone else has tried before."
In my case, i couldn't make the squirrelmail run though the php-4.4.2 ran nicely. I don't know where the problem lies.

"Don't you think the pgm's running on the older version of php will run on the newer?
If you have a place to test it first that would be your best solution.

rpm -u php*.rpm =updates the currently installed version with the newer version."

No it won't, i need oci-8 support with php and the php-4.3.9 installed through rpm during os installation doesn't have that one. can i upgrade this rpm somehow to have oci-8 support, that will work too.