By mrpauldriver on

I am using a shared server which is currently running php version 5.2.15.

I understand that Drupal 7 requires php 5.3

I have asked by hosting company if they can help, to which they politely replied...

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Lots of scripts aren't compatible with PHP 5.3 due to all the functions they have removed so we don't offer it on our shared hosting at this time.

If you can get the installer to the stage where it complains about the version, we can probably convince it to install. Normally it's a very obscure function within the application which requires 5.3 and the site will generally work fine on the earlier version with a little tweak.
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So am I wasting my time trying to get Drupal 7 to work with this earlier version of php.

I am not a power user as far as Drupal is concerned, but just think I would be more sense to brush up my skills with the latest version, rather than go back to the version 6.

Regards,
Paul

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pasive commented

Hi,

PHP 5.3 is recommended for D7, but as you can find from http://drupal.org/requirements#php, it should be enough with minimum PHP 5.2.5.

I hope it helps

P.

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