From b8c88753039d7ec25626476a5c6283936630dc95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Hensby Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:51:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] DOCS Explicitly noting lack of PHP 7 support --- docs/en/00_Getting_Started/00_Server_Requirements.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/en/00_Getting_Started/00_Server_Requirements.md b/docs/en/00_Getting_Started/00_Server_Requirements.md index a45bff786..a2f04bf94 100644 --- a/docs/en/00_Getting_Started/00_Server_Requirements.md +++ b/docs/en/00_Getting_Started/00_Server_Requirements.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Our web-based [PHP installer](installation/) can check if you meet the requireme ## Web server software requirements - * PHP 5.3.2+ + * PHP 5.3.2+, <7 * We recommend using a PHP accelerator or opcode cache, such as [xcache](http://xcache.lighttpd.net/) or [WinCache](http://www.iis.net/download/wincacheforphp). * Allocate at least 48MB of memory to each PHP process. (SilverStripe can be resource hungry for some intensive operations.) * Required modules: dom, gd2, fileinfo, hash, iconv, mbstring, mysqli (or other database driver), session, simplexml, tokenizer, xml. @@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ Our web-based [PHP installer](installation/) can check if you meet the requireme * Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 * Mac OS X 10.4+ +### Why doesn't SilverStripe 3 work with PHP 7? +Unfortunately, SilverStripe has classes named the same as PHP reserved words, such as "Int" and "Float". This means that +we are unable to make SilverStripe 3 support PHP 7 without breaking backward compatibility. SilverStripe 4 will work +with PHP 7 and will be released in 2016. Until then, we recommend that you use PHP 5.6. + ## Web server hardware requirements Hardware requirements vary widely depending on the traffic to your website, the complexity of its logic (i.e., PHP), and