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I was just getting started on updating my CiviUser addon for Joomla installations to work with Civi3.x when I discover a note on the requirements that Civi3.x does not work with PHP5.3 - only PHP5.2

Minor problem as the MacBook I'm using for development comes with PHP5.3 installed by default.

What is the nature of the PHP5.3 problem - is it a showstopper and when will it be fixed. I imagine we will start to see hosts offering PHP5.3 increasingly commonly, does this mean that CiviCRM can't be used on them?

There is a beautiful irony to this as for a long time I was stuck with an earlier version of CiviCRM as one of my clients hosts refused to update their servers to PHP5 from PHP4 - now I find I am stuck ahead of the curve waiting for Civi to catch up rather than bitching on here about lack of backwards compatibility 

Anyway - what is the problem with PHP5.3, what does it affect, when will it be fixed, what needs to be done?

Many thanks for the speedy response Donald. For now I can use another old server for dev testing rather than my laptop. Good to know that PHP5.3 compatibility is coming with v3.2 - mid 2010?

I seem to remember there was a Drupal issue with any PHP version higher than 5.2.8, it is worth while checking if that has been fixed (if you use Drupal that is :-))

I use joomla 1.5.15.
And I got the following errors:

http://www.repostor.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/contribute/transact&
--------
     Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.

    QuickForm Error: unknown error

    Return to home page.

Error Details:

Array
(
    [callback] => Array
        (
           

• => CRM_Core_Error
[1] => handle
        )

   

=> -1
    [message] => QuickForm Error: unknown error
    [mode] => 16
    [debug_info] => Form rule callback returned invalid value in HTML_QuickForm::validate()
    [type] => HTML_QuickForm_Error
    [user_info] => Form rule callback returned invalid value in HTML_QuickForm::validate()
    [to_string] => [html_quickform_error: message="unknown error" code=-1 mode=callback callback=CRM_Core_Error::handle prefix="QuickForm Error: " info="Form rule callback returned invalid value in HTML_QuickForm::validate()"]
)

which I did not get on my SuSE 10.2 with php 5.2; I have now OpenSuSE 11.2 with phph 5.3

Donald, you indicated that 3.2 would support PHP5.3. Is that the case now? The install guide says not.

I'm successfully using version 3.2.3 with PHP 5.3