Hall of Famer Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Well I am designing a software to be used by many users who may have freehosts, sharedhosts or VPS. There are some awesome features only available in PHP 5.3 I want to use for my softeare, such as namespace and about 80% of DateTime methods. A problem is that a few users still have hosting packages that run with PHP 5.2.17, but I wonder if it is about time to drop support for these PHP 5.2 users? I mean, is it a good practive to require users to have PHP 5.3+ on their server for application design nowadays? What do you think? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/271253-open-sourcefreeware-design-is-it-about-time-to-drop-support-for-php-52-users/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NomadicJosh Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 This is a diffucult and one that I had to deal with not too long ago. For myself, any new PHP application I code requires PHP 5.3+. Anything that users currently use, I try not to bring the majority at a disadvantage. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/271253-open-sourcefreeware-design-is-it-about-time-to-drop-support-for-php-52-users/#findComment-1395622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Why not? Symfony is 5.3.3+. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/271253-open-sourcefreeware-design-is-it-about-time-to-drop-support-for-php-52-users/#findComment-1395667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall of Famer Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 This is a diffucult and one that I had to deal with not too long ago. For myself, any new PHP application I code requires PHP 5.3+. Anything that users currently use, I try not to bring the majority at a disadvantage. Well actually many webhosts such as HostGator and Bluehost already enable PHP 5.3 as an option for users, although the default version is still PHP 5.2.17. Users can edit or add a line in config file to use PHP 5.3. For freehosts you cant really help, some do not even have a working PDO lol. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/271253-open-sourcefreeware-design-is-it-about-time-to-drop-support-for-php-52-users/#findComment-1395938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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