PHP 7 is out. anybody is using 6? I'm still using 5.2

risharde

Ah geez... I hope this doesn't mean I have to buy a new version of ioncube......

telephone

rm_ said: Just this week I ran into the issue with the disabled "<?" in 5.6, while moving a very old website to a Debian Jessie system. The website failed in the worst way possible, instead of the user content it was just displaying a part of its PHP source-code (and I only found out a couple of days later). They really seem to have fun breaking things for no particular reason. Not going to use the 7th version until at least a few years later.

rm_ said: It was working all along. Only the PHP version change broke it -- simple as that.

BC changes happen. Personally, I wish they happened more! PHP has quite a few messes that are kept solely to prevent BC changes.

Short tags were disabled by default in 5.4 (released in 2012), which gave you plenty of time to notice. If you want to blame someone:

1. Blame whoever compiled your PHP without short tags enabled by default
2. Blame your developer for not alerting you about the change in 2012
3. Blame yourself for not reading/setting the ini config before going live

namhuy

srvrpro said: Did you do any kind of speedtests before and after the update? Also, the fact that you're running WordPress, any issues you came across with it? They've been preparing for php7 for months.

I don't have any kind of speedtest. Most wordpress's cache plugins don't play well with php7 as far as I tried. w3tc in fact fuked up php-fpm service and make php-fpm hangs for hours until I realized it. Also php7 does not support memcached yet.

So right now I don't have any cache plugin running, but php's opcache

4n0nx

raindog308 said: I did. The first result reminded me again why it's impossible to have any pride or self-worth if you code in php.

To me it just seems like typical open source drama.

hostnoob

What configure options did you guys use?

I just used --with-mysqli

Do I need anything else (for security)? I don't need gd, etc.

lewissue

@hostnoob said:
What configure options did you guys use?

I just used --with-mysqli

Do I need anything else (for security)? I don't need gd, etc.

I just use LNMP one-key setup pack with the default settings

wget http://soft.vpser.net/lnmp/lnmp1.3beta-full.tar.gz

JakeH

No, too many issues stil

andiklive

@GIANT_CRAB said:
I'm using PHP 7 since its beta and had no major issues with Laravel.

@HostPair said:
Using php 7 on my wordpress site, so far no issue till now.

thats cool, i will upgrade it too since most my website using laravel and wordpress.

lewissue

@andiklive said:
thats cool, i will upgrade it too since most my website using laravel and wordpress.

but upgrading itself wastes time. if it's not required to upgrade, who wants to upgrade?

Rallias

lewissue said: but upgrading itself wastes time. if it's not required to upgrade, who wants to upgrade?

But security itself wastes time. If it's not required for my software to work, why should I care about it?

raindog308

Rallias said: But security itself wastes time. If it's not required for my software to work, why should I care about it?

You have a bright future in the open source web development world. They all think like you.

Rallias

raindog308 said: You have a bright future in the open source web development world. They all think like you.

That's exclusive to open-source web development? Damn it.

dragon1993

namhuy said: Also php7 does not support memcached yet.

PHP7 support memcached, i compiled this: php-memcached ,and works