phpBB 3.3 Requirement Change
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 6:03 pm
Well it looks like the requirements to upgrade phpBB 3.2 to 3.3 will require running a higher version of PHP.
Currently your site runs on php version 5.6.40.
New version
phpBB 3.3 will require an upgrade to php 7.1+ or higher as minimum.
Current version
phpBB 3.2 and older versions required PHP 5.4.7+ as minimum.
So the real question is..... what does this mean?
The reason we stuck with php 5.6.40 is because it is the latest version that supports running babstats old scripts. Anything newer will break and not function due to deprecated libraries.
The second reason is that phpBB 3.0 and higher has went through many iterations to clean up code to get it ready for newer versions of php due to the deprecation of functions. Like the old style mysql scripting.
I believe TheEYE aka Dennis had updated the php script outside of phpBB to work with the newer format of mysql database. So I think we are okay there. However I am not sure about any versions newer than 7.0. I would recommend upgrading to php version 7.3 if possible as 7.4 was just released.
The downfall of this is that you will not be able to run stats naively on your website when you guys used to upload them from your home servers on the weekend. We might be able to setup a workaround for that if you still want to do that. We can setup a sub domain that still uses the old php and the main website uses the latest php 7+ version.
This is similar to how I have your stats setup on the two links on the main site for stats. http://gameapps.primetechhosting.com/PGStatsPlain/
gameapps.primetechhosting.com is a sub domain of primetechhosting.com the gameapps runs on php 5.6 and primetechhosting.com runs on 7.3.
Currently your site runs on php version 5.6.40.
New version
phpBB 3.3 will require an upgrade to php 7.1+ or higher as minimum.
Current version
phpBB 3.2 and older versions required PHP 5.4.7+ as minimum.
So the real question is..... what does this mean?
The reason we stuck with php 5.6.40 is because it is the latest version that supports running babstats old scripts. Anything newer will break and not function due to deprecated libraries.
The second reason is that phpBB 3.0 and higher has went through many iterations to clean up code to get it ready for newer versions of php due to the deprecation of functions. Like the old style mysql scripting.
I believe TheEYE aka Dennis had updated the php script outside of phpBB to work with the newer format of mysql database. So I think we are okay there. However I am not sure about any versions newer than 7.0. I would recommend upgrading to php version 7.3 if possible as 7.4 was just released.
The downfall of this is that you will not be able to run stats naively on your website when you guys used to upload them from your home servers on the weekend. We might be able to setup a workaround for that if you still want to do that. We can setup a sub domain that still uses the old php and the main website uses the latest php 7+ version.
This is similar to how I have your stats setup on the two links on the main site for stats. http://gameapps.primetechhosting.com/PGStatsPlain/
gameapps.primetechhosting.com is a sub domain of primetechhosting.com the gameapps runs on php 5.6 and primetechhosting.com runs on 7.3.