aC forum: Minimum PHP Version Requirement

Post #11 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:48:14 CET

Hi Rick,

It's always recommended to go with latest stable release. Upgrade instructions are available here.

Post #10 by Richard Nadeau

Richard Nadeau — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:46:43 CET

Thanks for the quick response Ilija. I'll check with our team here and see if we want to go ahead with the upgrade.

Rick

Post #9 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:59:07 CET

Hello Rick,

Yes, we released activeCollab 2.3.8 that's tested with PHP 5.4 and activeCollab 3.0.2 beta works with it as well.

Post #8 by Richard Nadeau

Richard Nadeau — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:35:35 CET

Has activeCollab been tested with PHP 5.4?

Thanks,
Rick

Post #7 by willemn

willemn — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:51:52 CET

LOL "... that ... is the sound of inevitability.... mr.Anderson".

(quote from the Matrix for all of you who missed that)

Post #6 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:44:42 CET

PHP 5.4 is out... So much about PHP 5.3 being too much of a requirement.

Post #5 by willemn

willemn — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:30:56 CET

If you are a Rackspace user , you may also consider migrating to they Slicehost service. (They bought that company last year)

In that case you have full control over your environments (obviously that would mean you need to administrate it:))

We have 7 or so dedicated LAMP (slices) servers running there and feel it gives us the most power for the money without having to move to EC3. (with its inherent additional complexities)

On the SQL/.NET side we do not use rackspace though, for various other reasons, so if you have to live with MS, this is probably not a helpful comment :)

Post #4 by breeze

breeze — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:55:01 CET

Thanks for your reply. Funny, because on the 19th when I posted that, Parallels released an update to Plesk for Windows Servers which added PHP 5.3.9 support with a quick and easy update.

http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP10/parallels-plesk-panel-10-windows-updates-release-notes.html#104414

The post you mentioned was Plesk for Linux which supported 5.3 for a while.

Thanks - great that Plesk finally updated support for this version.

Post #3 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:43:51 CET

For Rackspace users - Rackspace confirmed that they'll roll out PHP 5.3 in February.

Post #2 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:40:24 CET

Hello,

We use late static binding (PHP 5.3 exclusive), and there are some strange bugs on PHP 5.2 that are on system level (random blank pages, system crashes etc). Because of that, there's 99.9% chance that PHP 5.3 will stay as a requirement. Soon after launch we'll do a bit of code clean-up that will use other PHP 5.3 features (closures, namespaces etc). These changes may come as bug fix releases to activeCollab 3, and not as part of the next major update.

You don't need to upgrade to activeCollab 3 as soon as it's out. activeCollab 2 has great support for older versions of PHP and MySQL (going back to PHP 4 and MySQL 3.23), so you can continue to use it until your hosting provider upgrades their platform (PHP 5.4 is due to be release in next 3, 4 weeks, so they will need to do that really soon).

Now, about Plesk: Here you can find instructions on how to upgrade PHP to latest version on Plesk running on Windows. It's not rocket surgery - PHP 5.3 has been around for years.