<div dir="ltr">My initial reaction here is that Themes should support the current core WordPress minimum requirements, which would mean that Themes that implement features beyond the minimum requirements would, at a minimum, need to ensure graceful degradation.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ryan Van Etten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryanve@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryanve@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PHP 5.3 supports </span><a href="http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">closures</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> and other </span><a href="http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.new-features.php" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">features</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. </span>I want to propose a mechanism for safely allowing PHP 5.3+ themes:<div>
<br><div><font face="courier new, monospace">/**</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> * Theme Name: example</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> * Minimum PHP version: 5.3.0</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> * ...</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> */</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With this info, the theme installation page could prevent users from installing 5.3 themes on 5.2 servers. The "Activate" link could be replaced with an alert that tells the user that the theme needs a higher PHP version. If unspecified, it'd default to the WP <a href="http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/" target="_blank">requirement</a>. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'd like to see WP be proactive about encouraging users to use 5.3+. The sooner we get the <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8372114/php-version-adoption-stats" target="_blank">majority</a> on 5.3, the better it will be for the core too. The same technique could be used for plugins, and it is future-proof to 5.4 etc.</font></div>
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