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The only issue now is their PHP 5.2.4 requirement which will keep from 15-20% of the users unable to update it: http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/wordpress-3-2-an

by sucuri2 15y ago

The only issue now is their PHP 5.2.4 requirement which will keep from 15-20% of the users unable to update it: http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/wordpress-3-2-and-php-support-security-effect.html http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/07/wordpress-3-2-and-php-support...

devicenull 15y ago
The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.
- zapman449 15y ago
  My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).
  - robryan 15y ago
    It was released in 2006, sure some hosting companies want to stay of the bleeding edge for fear of causing problems with the apps customers are running but if they haven't upgraded from that it's just laziness on their part.
  - johnny22 15y ago
    i thought most hosting companies who still use centos do so because of cpanel or other control panel software that handles handles php very well itself. Which ones don't?
  - RyanKearney 15y ago
    Considering most hosting companies use cPanel and PHP/Apache updates aren't taken from the operating systems repository, this doesn't matter.
  - epo 15y ago
    Use yum to list all 'php-' packages, unload them all and load in the 'php53' equivalents. I'm sure some cleaning up is involved but ...
dd32 15y ago
Luckely, the number is much lower than 15%, and is at about 6.5% based on the usage stats: http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ of those, about half are on PHP4, which you cant expect any major application to support for much longer, the rest are PHP 5.1, which whilst standard with many distro's, what's the point with droping PHP4 support if you don't choose a decent PHP5 version to start with?

by sucuri2 15y ago

devicenull 15y ago

The only way to get people to bug their hosts about upgrading PHP is to release popular software that requires it.. Without the demand to upgrade to higher versions, no host is going to bother.

zapman449 15y ago
My grief with this requirement is CentOS 5 only comes with php 5.1.6 without some hackery of special repos or self-compile... That affects a TON of hosting companies... especially with CentOS 6 still a few days away (which is a different challenge).
- robryan 15y ago
  It was released in 2006, sure some hosting companies want to stay of the bleeding edge for fear of causing problems with the apps customers are running but if they haven't upgraded from that it's just laziness on their part.
- johnny22 15y ago
  i thought most hosting companies who still use centos do so because of cpanel or other control panel software that handles handles php very well itself. Which ones don't?
- RyanKearney 15y ago
  Considering most hosting companies use cPanel and PHP/Apache updates aren't taken from the operating systems repository, this doesn't matter.
- epo 15y ago
  Use yum to list all 'php-' packages, unload them all and load in the 'php53' equivalents. I'm sure some cleaning up is involved but ...

dd32 15y ago

Luckely, the number is much lower than 15%, and is at about 6.5% based on the usage stats: http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ of those, about half are on PHP4, which you cant expect any major application to support for much longer, the rest are PHP 5.1, which whilst standard with many distro's, what's the point with droping PHP4 support if you don't choose a decent PHP5 version to start with?