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Well, the question is why so many admins stick with PHP 5. My guess is that due to the breaking changes that came with PHP 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#
by arendtio 8y ago
Well, the question is why so many admins stick with PHP 5. My guess is that due to the breaking changes that came with PHP 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_7
- merb 8y agoit is also shocking that they use php 5.5, which basically is unsupported for two years. Well PHP 5.6 is unsupported aswell, but it was supported till december 2018..
- dan1234 8y ago5.6 is officially unsupported but did actually get a security patch in January, with the possibility of further updates if warranted[1] [1]http://php.net/archive/2019.php#id2019-01-10-4 http://php.net/archive/2019.php#id2019-01-10-4
- kijin 8y agoUbuntu 14.04 shipped with PHP 5.5 by default, and it's supported until next month. I don't know how well the maintainers backport security fixes from newer versions, but at least technically it's still supported. The last security update to php5-common on trusty came out only a few days ago. End of upstream support is meaningless in a world where most servers run LTS distros of one flavor or another. I've been telling my clients that they should be able to rely on PHP 7.2 for a long, long time because it's the default version in Ubuntu 18.04 and RHEL/CentOS 8, both of which come with 10 years of support.
- folkrav 8y ago1. Bunch of up-and-forget sites on shared hosts 2. A metric ton of legacy codebases that plain don't work on PHP > 5.5 3. PHP 7 had quite a few breaking changes, like you mentioned 4. Laziness
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- buboard 8y agodefaults, for example latest CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) --> PHP 5.4.16 (cli) (built: Apr 12 2018 19:02:01) Also php7 breaks most old projects