[pmwiki-users] What is the best php version to use now ?

[Petko Yotov]

The latest version of the PmWiki core works with PHP 5.1-7.4 -- I test 
it in 7.4.2.

The "best PHP version to use now" depends on what recipes and skins you 
have and can these be upgraded, replaced or removed.

For most people the best (for them and for the community) may be to use 
the latest PHP stable version available at your hosting provider (7.2, 
7.3 or 7.4), and update all your addons and/or somehow incite the recipe 
authors or maintainers to update their code.

For PmWiki and addons/skin the major changes are:

* PHP 5.4 - htmlspecialhars() became too strict: unreliable
* PHP 5.5 - preg_replace() is deprecated with the /e flag
* PHP 7.2 - create_function() is deprecated, unquoted strings
* PHP 7.3 - continue inside switch issues warning
* PHP 7.4 - get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated; $string{0}

The core should have all these updated/fixed unless we haven't noticed 
some and nobody reported them.

Petko

On 24/01/2020 23:26, ABClf wrote:
> My host has upgraded everything and I'm now struggling to get my
> website working as it did (I'm not happy).
> First, please, what is the recommended php version to use with pmwiki
> ? I have a lot of work to do, and I would like to use the best option
> while debugging all what I can