You should try a 5.2 version.

Cheers dude,

I didn't know that, got it working no-problem with easy php 5.2 !!

Thanks

I was literally leaving for vacation so I didn't and haven't yet figured what the issue is, so I am running an older version of php as well for the time being.

This will need to be addressed once php 5.3 is more widespread.

Seems like the latest concrete gives errors during a fresh install, under xampp in windows 7. Probably unrelated to win 7 - probably the latest php causing this. I've seen similar problems months ago with other version numbers so it seems like concrete never likes the latest php... which is unfortunate since xampp gives you the latest php.

Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in C:\xampplite\htdocs\concrete5.3.2\concrete\helpers\validation\strings.php on line 31

Warning: get_class() expects parameter 1 to be object, null given in C:\xampplite\htdocs\concrete5.3.2\concrete\blocks\autonav\controller.php on line 189

Fatal error: Call to a member function add() on a non-object in C:\xampplite\htdocs\concrete5.3.2\concrete\models\collection.php on line 418

on concrete/helpers/validation/strings.php

you shoud find and replace eregi with preg_match.
remember preg_match should be used with "/".
ex)
return eregi("^[_\.0-9a-zA-Z-]+@([0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$", $em);
to
return preg_match("/^[_\.0-9a-zA-Z-]+@([0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/", $em);


on concrete/blocks/autonav/controller.php
change as follow.
if($obj){
switch(strtolower(get_class($obj))) {
...
}
}

then try install. but result is "Fatal error: Call to a member function add() on a non-object in"
then you add config/site.php manually.

<?php
define('LOCALE', 'ja_JP');
define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'concrete');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mypass');
define('DB_DATABASE', 'concrete');
define('BASE_URL', 'http://example.com');
define('DIR_REL', '');
define('PASSWORD_SALT', '');
?>

you should manually add Packages and Blocks but concrete5 will work.