[wp-hackers] How do I prevent activation of plugin is below PHP5?

[Piyush Mishra]

see otto's reply :)
the other(not recomended) way is to remove ur plugin from active
plugins list in options table

On 7/9/10, Raj <list at expost.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Piyush. Is there any value the activation hook
> should return so that Wordpress doesn't mark the plugin activated in the
> plugins list. Sure I can check if the version is below 5 using a eregi() and
> phpversion() but how do I communicate to wordpress that the plugin should
> not be marked as activated? If possible, anyway to make sure that the plugin
> is not even available for activation?
>
> Raj
>
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> 5?
>
> make an activation hook to check version and keep an option or
> something for activation. set that to 0 with the hook if php version
> is less thn 5 for more thn 5 set it to 1 and use that as a check...
>
> On 7/9/10, Raj <list at expost.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am getting a lot of emails from users of my plugin who are running it on
>> PHP 4.x and are seeing errors. How do I prevent the plugin from being
>> activated if the version of PHP is below PHP 5-? What should a plugin do
> to
>> not get activated? Meaning.. to signal to Wordpress that the activation
>> should be cancelled.
>>
>>
>>
>> Raj
>>
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