php 7 include problems

[rfthomas]

OpenVMS is neither UNIX/LINUX or WINDOWS based.  It's file system and file naming nomenclature is unique to OpenVMS.  A filename consists of <device>:[<directory tree>]<filename>.<extension>;<version>

For example: AST$WWW:[weberp.includes]session.php;1 would in translate to /ast$www/weberp/includes/session.php

The implementation of PHP 7 to properly parse the filenames requires that the following logical symbols (Environment variables in WINDOWS) be set:

DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT = "enabled"
DECC$GLOB_UNIX_SYSTEM = "enabled"

While weberp works well using PHP 7, several other PHP 5 based applications fail to run.  Several are old packages.  We are investigating our upgrade options.

For the time being we will need to remain with PHP 5.