[wp-hackers] PHP 5.3 stress tests with WordPress - expecting a lot of emitted warnings

Matt Freedman speedboxer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 09:30:48 UTC 2009


I've been running WordPress on PHP 5.3 since 5.3 was released and it
runs without problems. WordPress does use some now deprecated
functionality, but that will not prevent it from running as before.


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Hans Krentel<hanskrentel at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the infos.
>
>
>> Can we assume, that the latest version of WordPress 2.8.2
>> is still PHP 5.3 compatible at all ?
> I doubt that it can or can not be assumed. It would need to run tests to properly say wether or not it is functioning properly with 5.3.
>
>> If not, should this lead to a warning publication
>> (especially adressed to theme/plugin authors) ?
>
> I think first of all we need a valid and binding statement wether or not WordPress core should be compatible with PHP 5.3 or not. The project maintainers need to make that statement.
>
> I like the Idea to have that statement in bold because PHP 5.3 release is some days older now. It was in the beginning of the month if I remember correctly.
>
>
> -hakre
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