Should I use PHP 5.4 ?

  • kitchin

    (@kitchin)


    13 years ago

    What’s the best PHP version to use if your host offers too many choices to decide 🙂 ? I already ran into an issue with a plugin not coded for 5.2, see http://wordpress.org/tags/_dir_

    Here’s what my web host offers, via a choice in cPanel. Standard LAMP stack.

    // PHP Version 5.2.17
    // PHP Version 5.3.24
    // PHP Version 5.4.14
    // PHP Version 5.5.0beta3

    I’m thinking 5.4. Any known issues in the WP ecosystem?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years ago

    I think PHP 5.4 should be fine although I noted that my personal favourite hosts are still using 5.3.24.

    Thread Starter kitchin

    (@kitchin)

    13 years ago

    The performance benchmark improvements look good for 5.4 http://news.php.net/php.internals/57760 and the “backward-incompatible” changes look pretty minimal this time http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php so I’ll probably give it a whirl. (I’m sure WP core is fine, it’s just plugins I’m worried about.)

    I didn’t even notice my host was defaulting to 5.2 until recently, I guess they are trying to be super safe. And offering too many options 🙂

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