Title: Wrong statement of minimum PHP version.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Wrong statement of minimum PHP version.

 *  [scott.hepler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scotthepler/)
 * (@scotthepler)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-statement-of-minimum-php-version/)
 * This actually requires php 5.3.3, not 5.2.x as stated here by author! **DANGER**—
   upgrade does not warn, so borks previously working installs!! See thread here:
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3?replies=10#post-3913329](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/s3?replies=10#post-3913329)
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 *  Anonymous User 7658014
 * (@anonymized_7658014)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-statement-of-minimum-php-version/#post-3517631)
 * The readme file has just been updated from:
 * > WordPress 3.2 and PHP 5.2.6 required! To use the Plugin with full functionality
   > PHP 5.3.3 with mysqli
 * to:
 * > WordPress 3.2 and PHP 5.2.6 required! To use the Plugin with full functionality
   > PHP 5.3.3 with mysqli, FTP,gz, bz2, ZipArchive and curl is needed. Plugin functions
   > that don’t work will be not displayed.

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