[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23880: Minimum PHP version in Plugins

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#23880: Minimum PHP version in Plugins
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 Reporter:  TJNowell         |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugins          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by maratbn):

 Too bad that this ticket was closed.

 So far I released 2 plugins that require PHP >= 5.4 due to the use of
 short echo tags and namespaces.

 Most of the problems reported by users are from trying to run the plugins
 on PHP < 5.3, which do not have namespace support.  I already have logic
 to test for PHP < 5.4, but that only works on PHP 5.3, because anything
 less will error-out on the namespace syntax, which also has to be the
 first line.

 Work-arounds for that would add a slight performance penalty for each HTTP
 request to the site, which is just not worth it for the vast majority of
 users running some more recent PHP.  But if WordPress already did this the
 same way it already checks for compatible WordPress versions when
 installing themes/plugins there would be no additional performance
 penalty.

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