Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? Hello from France! I'm currently running Phorum 5.2.19 with PHP 5.4 and our Internet provider requires that we upgrade PHP, since apparently PHP 5.4 is no longer supported. According to this web page, http://php.net/downloads.php the latest PHP 5 version is 5.6.20 Before upgrading PHP I would like to know if there are any known issue running Phorum 5.2.19 or 5.2.20 with PHP 5.6.20 Thanks in advance!! https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156894#msg-156894 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:46:26 -0500 Phorum 6.0.4 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,158359#msg-158359 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,158359#msg-158359 [www.phorum.org]

This patch worked for me [github.com]]]> Scott Finegan Phorum Support Thu, 19 May 2016 22:41:03 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,157057#msg-157057 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,157057#msg-157057
In the Phorum system itself, the same issue appears in two admin files (with Phorum 5.2.20), more specifically the files rebuild.php and cache.php. I solve this issue by changing the line
$frm = &new PhorumInputForm ( "", "post" );
to
$frm = new PhorumInputForm ( "", "post" );
in order to let form be displayed.]]> slashbin Phorum Support Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:13:29 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,157055#msg-157055 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,157055#msg-157055
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It appears that all the issues I have found to date are related to the assignment by reference, known as a backward incompatibility. [...] Practically speaking, I resolved the issues by replacing the assignment =& by =

I couldn't find any assignment by reference in Phorum core and the modules I'm using...

Regards
Oliver]]> Oliver Riesen-Mallmann Phorum Support Fri, 15 Apr 2016 06:48:33 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156917#msg-156917 No problems found so far upgrading to PHP 5.6 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156917#msg-156917
Meanwhile, our Phorum 5.2 was updated to PHP 5.6.20 today (2016-04-11) and so far, so good, no issues found in Phorum.

We'll probably wait until PHP 5.6 is non longer maintained to make the upgrade to PHP 7.0]]> Emmanuel Bigler Phorum Support Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:39:16 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156916#msg-156916 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156916#msg-156916
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It appears that all the issues I have found to date are related to the assignment by reference, known as a backward incompatibility: [php.net]

Can you provide me a copy of your changes? I'll try to move them to the Phorum source.

Regards
Oliver]]> Oliver Riesen-Mallmann Phorum Support Mon, 11 Apr 2016 01:55:34 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156902#msg-156902 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156902#msg-156902 php.net]

Practically speaking, I resolved the issues by replacing the assignment =& by =]]> slashbin Phorum Support Fri, 08 Apr 2016 09:52:02 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156900#msg-156900 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156900#msg-156900
I have noticed that 5.6 will be the last version of PHP in the 5.X series, the new version will be 7.X but I'm reluctant to jump to 7.X too soon.
As far as I understand the PHP development calendar,
http://php.net/supported-versions.php
version 5.6 will still be updated at least for critical issues until the end of year 2018.

This hopefully lets the Phorum development gurus some time to get Phorum ready for PHP 7.X

Al the best!]]> Emmanuel Bigler Phorum Support Fri, 08 Apr 2016 05:04:06 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156895#msg-156895 Re: Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156895#msg-156895
I'm still using PHP 5.4.

But I did already an analysis based on PHP documentation for depreciated functions. I didn't find something.

Regards
Oliver]]> Oliver Riesen-Mallmann Phorum Support Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:59:03 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156894#msg-156894 Any problems upgrading to PHP 5.6? https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,156894,156894#msg-156894
I'm currently running Phorum 5.2.19 with PHP 5.4 and our Internet provider requires that we upgrade PHP, since apparently PHP 5.4 is no longer supported.

According to this web page,
http://php.net/downloads.php
the latest PHP 5 version is 5.6.20
Before upgrading PHP I would like to know if there are any known issue running Phorum 5.2.19 or 5.2.20 with PHP 5.6.20

Thanks in advance!!]]> Emmanuel Bigler Phorum Support Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:02:57 -0500