[wp-hackers] php -v

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

FWIW, I did a random sampling of some 3.7.1 API requests, and that too
showed about 50% of users on 5.2.17, which mostly agree's with
http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ (I was really hoping that PHP 5.2 was
more common amongst older versions of WordPress, but that was proved wrong)

A number of larger american hosts defaulted to PHP 5.2 a long time ago and
never forced users to update. A number of them are currently mass-migrating
users to PHP 5.3 so it'll be interesting to see how that changes the tide
in the coming months.



On 8 November 2013 03:43, Baki Goxhaj <banago at gmail.com> wrote:

> That graph is very outdated. Look here instead:
> http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all
>
> Because I use a small class on my themes that requires 3.5, I've asked 10+
> clients to upgrade PHP to more then 5.2 and the good news is all of them
> have done so with no issue at all. It seems people still use 5.2 in many
> hosts because that was pre-selected 3-4 years ago when the signed up.
>
> I think WordPress can make a difference in this sphere by requiring at
> least 5.3.
>
> Kindly,
>
> Baki Goxhaj
> about.me/banago
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq <
> abdussamad at abdussamad.com> wrote:
>
> > Far too many people are still on 5.2:
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/about/stats/
> >
> >
> > On 11/07/2013 09:29 PM, Baki Goxhaj wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> Are there any plans to upgrade the minimum required version of PHP in
> WP?
> >> I
> >> think we are falling a little behind.
> >>
> >> What's the word on that?
> >>
> >> Kindly,
> >>
> >> Baki Goxhaj
> >> about.me/banago
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