php fatal error trying to run update scripts

Monday 27 March 2006 12:17:50 pm

trying to run:
php update/common/scripts/updatetoplevel.php -snews_admin
I get the error message:
PHP Fatal error: Cannot reassign $this in C:\bal_well\ezpublish-3.5.1\lib\ezutils\classes\ezdebug.php on line 198

Line 198:
$this =& eZDebug::instance();
in:
function messageName( $messageType )
{
if ( !isset( $this ) or
get_class( $this ) != "ezdebug" )
$this =& eZDebug::instance();
return $this->MessageNames[$messageType];
}

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday 29 March 2006 10:09:38 am

I'm running php 5.0.5. How do I run php cli? And, if the scripts are in the update/common/scripts/ directory, do I have to move them all to the root before running them in the command prompt? And, do I run ALL the scripts in the scripts directory, and in which order, does it matter?

Thank you

Saturday 01 April 2006 10:20:55 am

I installed php 4.4.2, but I'm still getting errors. Starting with failing to open stream: no such file or directory ... line 37, and ending a fatal error of undefined class name 'ezcli'. I'm past ready to give up on eZpublish, and just re-do the site on a different open source cms. It has been far from'EZ' thus far.