Thanks all for the input.
I wish we could offer to help co-fund the code base update as Alistair
suggested, but I don't think we are in a position to do so at the
moment. That said, do people have an idea of the likely size/resource
of such a task in case I can think of a way of getting some funding?
I think we are going to have to postpone our trial for now, which is a
shame, as I do like the tool.
Best wishes
Mike
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From: Spark, Alistair <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 14 October 2016 at 10:58
Subject: Re: Versions of PHP
To: [log in to unmask]
Our test server was on 5.5 and it worked ok but I think it was much
more funny with MySQL/MariaDB versions as it wouldn’t work on our
standard prod environment which had higher versions of MariaDB than on
test.
I guess the question for this is would anyone be interested in
co-funding an update of the WebPA codebase to support PHP 7.0 /
MariaDB 10.2 ?
We piloted it last year off the test server but since it met the
business need, we want to sort this out for a more permanent setup but
no idea how big of a job this is likely to be.
Thanks
Alistair
> On 14 Oct 2016, at 10:07, Cheseldine, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike
>
> Recent posts suggest that some people are running it on 5.4 at least with very minor single line code changes. However these aren't getting built into any upgrade process or newer versions of the downloadable source code, so as far as I can see the only way to way to be aware of these changes is through this mail-list.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebPA [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Cameron
> Sent: 14 October 2016 08:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Versions of PHP
>
> Dear all
>
> We are working with our IT Services team on an installation of WebPA.
> Does WebPA work with recent versions of PHP? Which versions are people using?
>
> Our systems developer pointed out the following:
>
> "WebPA's documentation specifically says PHP version 5.2.xx, which has been out of support (security patches, etc) for at least 3 years. If the app can't run on newer PHP version this could be an issue, especially if it's available externally."
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mike
>
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