Who still uses PHP 5.x?

[SilverNodashi]

I am quite curious, who still uses PHP 5.x?

And, if you still use it, what application(s) do you have that still runs on PHP5?

 

[Thor]

On the one server we still have 5.xxx due to legacy bespoke software that will be too expensive to rewrite at this stage.

Other servers all run 7.xxx

 

[craiglotter]

As it is with all IT systems, some of our servers run it for older pieces of code/software.

 

[_kabal_]

Every php 5.x system that is not maintained, besides critical bug fixes.

 

[Johnatan56]

/raise hand
Not server though, local testing environment. It's for learning purposes.

 

[c10n3d_0r6]

Hetzner's shared hosting. Wish they would upgrade to 7 already.

 

[SilverNodashi]

Some interesting responses here. Battling with clients to upgrade to PHP 7 as well and just wanted to see if PHP 5.x is really that high on demand. According to Wordpress' statistics, 40.3% still run on PHP 5.6! https://wordpress.org/about/stats/

 

[ima_be_thatguy]

Youd be surpised. Then again its not just a matter of "Lets rewrite it all in PHP 7". Its expensive and time consuming. And most times, upper management takes the view that "If its not broke, dont fix it".

 

[_kabal_]

if a project is going to be maintained or extended, "rewriting" (ie, fix a couple of incompatibilities) is a no brainer.

obviously this sucks if your entire project uses "php 4 style constructors", but then your life was already unpleasant

 

[neo_]

Hetzner's shared hosting. Wish they would upgrade to 7 already.

Have they seriously not upgraded yet???

 

[Thor]

Have they seriously not upgraded yet???

KonsoleH

One big Pot of k@k imo.

 

[c10n3d_0r6]

Have they seriously not upgraded yet???

Nope :/

 

[Johnatan56]

if a project is going to be maintained or extended, "rewriting" (ie, fix a couple of incompatibilities) is a no brainer.

obviously this sucks if your entire project uses "php 4 style constructors", but then your life was already unpleasant

Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrote the parser in 1997 and formed the base of PHP 3, changing the language's name to the recursive acronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.[5][19] Afterwards, public testing of PHP 3 began, and the official launch came in June 1998. Suraski and Gutmans then started a new rewrite of PHP's core, producing the Zend Engine in 1999.[20] They also founded Zend Technologies in Ramat Gan, Israel.[5]

On May 22, 2000, PHP 4, powered by the Zend Engine 1.0, was released.[5] As of August 2008 this branch reached version 4.4.9. PHP 4 is no longer under development nor will any security updates be released.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_3_and_4

Just curious as to why you're still developing for it nearly 9 years after the final security patch?
Or are you bringing it up to date?

 

[_kabal_]

We don’t . However when we migrated our 5.6 platform code base to 7.0, we had some legacy php 4 style constructors that needed to be replaced, that’s all

 

[chopsky]

7 all the way.