Change version of PHP

[Kalimera]

Hello

My host is phasing out php 4 to php 5. Today I run the board with php 4.4.8. I use vBulletin 3.8.1 Patch Level 1.

Is it something I must do before they change version?

I can choose between php 5.2 and 5.3.

Which version should I choose?

Best regards from a cold Sweden

[Trevor Hannant]

I'd look at upgrading your forum as there are known issues with php5 and older versions of vBulletin

[Kalimera]

Thanks!


I know that I should upgrade, and I want do to it. The problem is that my host is running MySQL-version “4.0.27-standard”. And that’s not enough for vBulletin 4. Or is ot?


When vBulletin 3.8 was released the recommendation was like this: “However, we recommend that vBulletin 3.8.x is run on PHP 5.2.8.”


So I thought that it was ok.


What can happen with my forum when they upgrade to php 5, if I don’t do anything?

Janne

[Trevor Hannant]

If they upgrade to 5.3 you may have issues unless you're running vB3.8.7. If they only upgrade to 5.2 then you may be OK.

[Kalimera]

If they upgrade to 5.3 you may have issues unless you're running vB3.8.7. If they only upgrade to 5.2 then you may be OK.

Thanks again!

Then I tell them to upgrade to php 5.2 and hope that it will work out well. If not, I hope that I can upgrade to vB3.8.7, and then change to php. 5.3

Janne

[carolc]

Trevor - do you think that somewhere down the line a new version of php (or mysql) will break version 3.8x altogether? I mean, do you think that all of us 3.8 users will have to move to vB 4 eventually?

[Trevor Hannant]

Possibly - hard to say what newer versions of PHP will do to older versions of vB to be honest. But as we're no longer developing for 3.x (except for the MAPI), if it breaks badly in future then you will need to move to vB4 unless you can persuade/find a host that will stay on an older version of PHP