Is your server running 5.3 right now? (You can check on the new Server Statistics page in Elgg 1.8.3 or greater.)
If not, when do you plan to upgrade to PHP 5.3?
Drupal and Moodle are examples of two PHP applications that require (or will require) PHP 5.3 for their newer releases. We will be requiring 5.3 at some point (1.9, 1.10, 1.11?) and would like some feedback on this.
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The company I work in has around 20 servers. At the moment 1/3 and by the end of May all of them will be using 5.3.
Oh, and only one of them has Elgg installations, so that server will most likely be running PHP 5.3 much earlier than that. :)
@steve - good point
We're going to continue watch the 5.3 adoption rate. As I continued to investigate this, it turns out that a lot of hosters offer 5.3 for shared hosting, but you have to turn it on in the control panel or .htaccess.
+1 for requiring PHP 5.3 in Elgg's next major version (1.9). Also, I wholeheartedly agree with Ismayil on moving to HTML5/CSS3 - though I realize the significant amount of work involved with this one.
may I ask a question?
What would be the implications of me switching to 5.3 right now when my site was installed on 5.2?
dumb question no doubt
@Stumpy: probably just a performance increase. Later PHP versions are generally faster.
PHP version as plugin dependency has been added for 1.9, but no movement in the sense to require 5.3 in whole Elgg. For this reason I propose focus the move to PHP 5.3 in Elgg 1.10.
I also want to move to HTML5 + CSS3 in Elgg 1.10. Will be it possible?
Nowadays we have Evan's HTML5 plugin, we can work in it.
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