[wp-hackers] readme.txt: "Requires PHP 5 tag"

[Tim Nash]

http://gophp5.org/

Cheers
Tim

2009/7/14 Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com>:
> Is there a page somewhere on a "big, authoritative" website, that explains
> why PHP5 is cool and required etc. that people can link to?
>
> Best,
> Joost
>
> Otto wrote:
>>
>> Don't rely on users, they're invariably idiots. ;)
>>
>> Make your plugin smarter instead.
>>
>> /**
>>  * plugin_activation_check()
>>  *
>>  * Replace "plugin" with the name of your plugin
>>  */
>> function plugin_activation_check(){
>>        if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.0.0', '<')) {
>>                deactivate_plugins(basename(__FILE__)); // Deactivate
>> ourself
>>                wp_die("Sorry, but you can't run this plugin, it requires
>> PHP 5 or higher.");
>>        }
>> }
>> register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'plugin_activation_check');
>>
>>
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Lutz Schröer<latz at elektroelch.de>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've decided to use exclusively PHP5 in my new plugin version since it
>>> was
>>> much easier to code it using the PHP5 features. Unfortunately many users
>>> seem to have no access to webspace with PHP5 (five years after PHP5 was
>>> released!).
>>>
>>> I have prevented people from updating through the backend
>>> programmatically
>>> but those who are downloading the plugin from wordpress.org and
>>> installing
>>> it manually often do not read the readme.txt and wonder about a "Parse
>>> error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS".
>>>
>>> How about adding a "Requires PHP version x.xx" tag to the readme.txt that
>>> will be displayed on the extend pages? And maybe the backend could
>>> evaluate
>>> this tag, too, and disable the update if the installed version does not
>>> fit.
>>>
>>>
>>> ... and even if this topic has been discussed a thousand times: Let's
>>> drop
>>> the PHP4 support!
>>>
>>> Latz
>>>
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