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upgrade to PHP 5.4 - concern for older version? [message #183954]

Fri, 29 November 2013 01:42

Macavity

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I am now dealing with a 5-year-old legacy forum running FUDforum version 2.7.7 on Bluehost. Previous attempts at upgrading to a newer version had apparently failed. The forum has been essentially troublefree (max props!) all this time.

Bluehost will be upgrading the account to PHP 5.4 early next week.

Is there any cause for concern in this upgrade? My PHP skills are modest but I do understand the phrase "backwards incompatible"...

Not sure what my options are if the forum breaks.

Thanks.

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Re: upgrade to PHP 5.4 - concern for older version? [message #183957 is a reply to message #183954]

Fri, 29 November 2013 04:55

naudefj

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FUDforum 2.7.7 is VERY OLD (2007 vintage) and will most likely not work with PHP 5.4! Upgrade path is to FUDforum 3.0.0 and then to 3.0.5 (or even 3.0.6RC1).

Best of luck!

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Re: upgrade to PHP 5.4 - concern for older version? [message #183992 is a reply to message #183957]

Sat, 30 November 2013 17:49

Macavity

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So far, so good.

Fingers crossed.

Will be planning to upgrade but good not to have to do it under the gun Wink

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ETA: Version 2.7.7 has been running under PHP 5.4 for over a week without incident now. Just an FYI for any other unfortunates dealing with ancient legacy versions.

[Updated on: Sat, 07 December 2013 16:38]

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