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If michh is working on plugins for other people, shared hosts can be pretty behind on their PHP versions. I just had to backport a wordpress plugin to 5.2(!), w
by griffindy 13y ago
If michh is working on plugins for other people, shared hosts can be pretty behind on their PHP versions. I just had to backport a wordpress plugin to 5.2(!), which came out in 2006.
EDIT: meant PHP versions, not plugins.
- wdmeldon 13y agoThats the curse of distributable code unfortunately. And PHP only makes it worse because it's old versions are absolutely terrible...
- maratd 13y ago> And PHP only makes it worse because it's old versions are absolutely terrible... You just need to put your foot down. 5.2 is absolutely too much, I would never develop for it. Just tell them to stop being so damn cheap and upgrade to a decent hosting company. AWS is free for a year for new clients, there's no reason for them not to switch to something decent.