#Php 5.2 benchmark install#
#Php 5.2 benchmark upgrade#

Think of the shear number of servers that were upgraded. The amazing thing is that PHP 5.2 went from about 1% host adoption at the start of GoPHP5, to well over 50% adoption within 6 months. They wanted to join the effort and move forward. The surprising thing is that not only did over 100 projects join the pledge, but over 100 hosts did as well.

#Php 5.2 benchmark install#

That meant that within 6 months, 100 of the most popular PHP based projects would drop support for PHP 4.4 (which at the time was over 85% of the install base). Projects pledged that by Febru(approximately 6 months from the start) the next major release of every project would require 5.2 as a minimum version. (Sound familiar?)Ī group of projects (3 initially, but over 100 within months) decided that if they banded together, then they would have enough leverage to force the hosts to adopt 5.2. It would be a death toll for their user base. Projects couldn’t move to 5.0, because hosts didn’t support it. Their users didn’t need it, projects didn’t require it. By 2007 adoption rates were trivial at best (low single digit percent). When PHP 5 came out, there was initially trivial adoption. How do I know that they will move quickly? Because it’s happened in the past. If users don’t know what “version” means, then teach them. I would also say that the key to benefiting users is not to give in to them, but to educate them. They just need to know if the host is compatible with the project or not.Ĭonsidering how much business these tools bring to the hosts, they will move quickly. I would say that they don’t need to know what “PHP or version means”. Why? Because if they don’t, they’ll lose business.īut that still leaves the user out in the cold, doesn’t it? If major projects like WordPress and CodeIgniter say that “5.2 will no longer be supported”, the vast majority of hosts would almost immediately support newer versions. They are driven by demand and by market forces just like anything else. But fortunately, it’s not the only variable.Īnother very significant variable are the hosts themselves. If that was the only variable at play, it would be correct (raising the version would abandon users). Adding 5.3 brings the total to 66.5% of the market running unsupported versions of PHP. But it also means that 72.1% of users are running unsupported software…Īccording to, overall PHP 5.2 is at 20.4% of the market. Therefore, if you raised WordPress’s minimum version to 5.4 or higher, then over 72.1% of users would be abandoned. Adding in 5.3 (which is also no longer maintained) brings that number up to 72.1%. According to ’s Own Statistics, approximately 33.6% of users are still using PHP 5.2. Well, this is an interesting question to say the least. Is Raising Minimum Versions Abandoning Users? It implies that to raise minimum version requirements would “abandon” users or do them harm. On the other hand, it seems to be built to evoke an emotion of “taking a higher ground”. It also seems perfectly logical since abandoning users would be bad. “Think Of The Users”, “We don’t want to abandon anyone”. It sounds like a “Think Of The Children” argument.

Everyone, bar sociopaths, is affected by emotion, and so appeals to emotion are a very common and effective argument tactic, but they’re ultimately flawed, dishonest, and tend to make one’s opponents justifiably emotional. It’s important to note that sometimes a logically coherent argument may inspire emotion or have an emotional aspect, but the problem and fallacy occurs when emotion is used instead of a logical argument, or to obscure the fact that no compelling rational reason exists for one’s position. On the surface, it almost looks like it’s an Appeal To Emotion:Īppeals to emotion include appeals to fear, envy, hatred, pity, pride, and more. The problem is, is it based on a flawed premise…? Is It A Fallacy? It’s a warm and logical idea Open your arms to everyone, and include them all. And some projects don’t want to abandon users. It boils down to making the logical argument that if hosts don’t support 5.4+, then moving to require 5.4+ would leave the users who use those hosts abandoned. Now, these are pretty interesting arguments.

#Php 5.2 benchmark upgrade#

While there is some room for a coordinated effort by PHP framework developers to push the server vendors/operators to upgrade their PHP versions, most developers have to look at their potential user base to determine what version they use as their minimum supported version.